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  • 1 - Enlarging the Boundary of Racial Justice

  • Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book:
    Private Racism
    Published online:
    09 September 2019
    Print publication:
    26 September 2019, pp 11-46

  • Summary

    This chapter provides the moral consensus that will motivate the book and each of the individual chapters. This moral consensus draws on the ideal and actual society approaches or methodologies of justice. I argue that both these approaches support an expansive view of the boundary of racial justice by recognizing that private racism is wrong. I show that civil rights law enforces this consensus by prohibiting racial discrimination and steering in our private lives.

Private Racism
  • Sonu Bedi
  • Published online:
    09 September 2019
    Print publication:
    26 September 2019
  • Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. 'Private racism' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism.