id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-3889 Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism - Oxford Scholarship .html text/html 843 125 62 Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism Accordingly, the chapters look at racial liberalism, past and pres ... Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism argues that rather than being irrelevant to the workings of self-conceived liberal polities today, this history of denial and its current legacy should be regarded as continuing to shape liberalism in fundamental ways. Accordingly, the chapters look at racial liberalism, past and present: “white ignorance� as a guilty ignoring of reality that facilitates ongoing white racial domination; Immanuel Kant’s role as the most important liberal theorist of both personhood and sub-personhood; the centrality of racial exploitation to the economy of the United States; and the evasion of the realities of white supremacy and the need for corrective racial justice in John Rawls’s hugely influential “ideal theory� framing of the derivation of principles of social justice. Chapter 3 Racial Liberalism ./cache/web-archive-org-3889.html ./txt/web-archive-org-3889.txt