Focused on some of the most conspicuous forms of social, psychological, and ideological resistance to the very idea of reparations, Whiteness, Fair Play, and Reparation develops a new fairness-based argument designed to help sensitize opponents to the force of more familiar calls for racial redress. Drawing on a range of empirical literature on whites attitudes toward race-conscious policy, and related sociological analyses of the white moral imagination, the book argues that the lens of "fair play" can help provide socially and morally threatened whites with a psychologically viable route toward appreciating their personal enmeshment within structures of racial hierarchy.
1. Introduction: Entering the Fray.-
2. Reparations and the Problem of
Whiteness.-
3. Fair Play and Political Responsibility.-
4. Fair Play and
Reparative Justice.-
5. Three Alternative Approaches.-
6. Fair Play as
Political Inroad.-
7. Conclusion: Clearing Ground.
Joseph Frigault is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.
