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    The Sense and Sensibility of Equality
    Philosophy of Education 75 34-64. 2019.
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    The Color of Our Shame
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing. Of course, the evidence tells a very different story. And while social scientists are fully engaged in examining the facts of race, normative political thought has failed to grapple with race as an interesting moral case or as a focus in the expansive theory of social justice. Political thought's u…Read more
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    Andrew Valls, Rethinking Racial Justice
    Ethics 130 (3): 478-482. 2020.
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    Equality from a Human Point of View
    Critical Philosophy of Race 2 (2): 125-159. 2014.
    Racial inequality remains a persistent feature of American life. Despite the prominent place the idea of equality holds in the tradition of political philosophy, we remain without an effective conception appropriate for the experience of racial inequality. In this paper, I re-frame debates around equality and egalitarianism by reflecting on some of James Baldwin's more strident arguments in his 1965 debate with William Buckley. I suggest he presses two complaints that are fundamental to racial i…Read more