RACE AND CLASS TOGETHER

被引:0
作者
Blum, Lawrence [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Massachusetts, Boston 100 William T Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125 USA
关键词
race; class; white supremacy; Charles Mills; racial disparities; class injustice; systemic racism;
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中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
The dispute about the role of class in understanding the life situations of people of color has tended to be overpolarized, between a class reductionism and an "it's only race" position. Class processes shape racial groups' life situations. Race and class are also distinct axes of injustice; but class injustice informs racial injustice. Some aspects of racial injustice can be expressed only in concepts associated with class (e.g., material deprivation, inferior education). But other aspects of racial injustice or other harms, such as racial discrimination or stigma, are not reducible to class concepts and cannot be fully addressed through class-focused policies. Overall, any attempt to fully secure racial justice for a racial group will require a combination of race-focused and class-focused policies. Anti-racist outlooks often neglect or downplay either the normative or the explanatory significance of class, or both-for example, by overlooking or downplaying the dignitary harms of class and the material harms of race; missing the historical dimension of class injustice; masking class by a narrowing of the complex normative structure of racial disparities; or not recognizing that a class-focused initiative (like raising the minimum wage) can address substantial racial justice concerns, even though not all of them. "Systemic racism" terminology recognizes class explanatorily but suppresses it normatively. Charles Mills's influential notion of "white supremacy," while a powerful tool for conceptualizing and illuminating racial injustice, can also contribute to minimizing or masking the justice-related impact of class, as do some of Mills's specific discussions of class in various writings.
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页码:381 / 395
页数:15
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