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12Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and ReconstructionOxford University Press. 2024.Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction is a work of political philosophy that examines the core injustices of the contemporary U.S. housing crisis and its relation to enduring racial injustices. It posits that what is required to achieve justice in social-spatial arrangements—what is otherwise called “spatial justice”—is to prioritize, in the crafting and enforcement of housing policy, individual moral equality and liberty; distributive justice; equal citizenship; an…Read more
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Rending the Veil: A Critical Look at the Ontology and Conservation of "Race"Dissertation, University of Minnesota. 1999.In Rending The Veil: A Critical Look at the Ontology & Conservation of "Race," I explore the nature and existence of "race" and the question of whether the social use of racial classification ought to continue. The principal vehicle for my exploration is W. E. B. Du Bois's landmark 1897 essay "The Conservation Of Races." It is Du Bois' thesis in that essay, along with the criticism and the support it has met, that forms the focus of my work. This debate, relevant to our times, can be characteriz…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Race and Justice |
Social and Political Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |
Philosophy of Race |