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31Recognition and Multiculturalism in EducationJournal of Philosophy of Education 35 (4): 539-559. 2001.Charles Taylor’s ‘Politics of Recognition’ has given philosophical substance to the idea of ‘recognition’ and has solidified a link between recognition and multiculturalism. I argue that Taylor oversimplifies the valuational basis of recognition; fails to appreciate the difference between recognition of individuals and of groups; fails to articulate the value of individuality; fails to appreciate the difference between race and ethnoculture as dimensions of identity; and fails to appreciate equa…Read more
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53443Stereotypes And Stereotyping: A Moral AnalysisPhilosophical Papers 33 (3): 251-289. 2004.Stereotypes are false or misleading generalizations about groups, generally widely shared in a society, and held in a manner resistant, but not totally, to counterevidence. Stereotypes shape the stereotyper’s perception of stereotyped groups, seeing the stereotypic characteristics when they are not present, and generally homogenizing the group. The association between the group and the given characteristic involved in a stereotype often involves a cognitive investment weaker than that of belief.…Read more
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62Review of Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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PrejudiceIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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38Antiracist Moral Identities, or Iris Murdoch in South AfricaSouth African Journal of Philosophy 30 (4): 440-451. 2011.I argue that Samantha Vice understates the moral resources white people have available to them to minimize their falling into distorted ways of perceiving and responding to the world caused by bare white advantage. In doing so, she paints an unjustifiably pessimistic picture of white civic involvement in South Africa, and anywhere where white people are unjustly advantaged, such as the United States. I delineate two similar but distinct antiracist moral identities the 'white ally' and the 'perso…Read more
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165White Privilege, Injustice, and the "Black Lives Matter" MovementRadical Philosophy Review 19 (3): 681-688. 2016.
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