Dark Ghettos - Injustice, Dissent, and Reform Paperback
Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardWhy do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators…
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Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardWhy do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor--such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime--as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to "fix" ghettos or "help" their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. "Provocative... Shelby] doesn't lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers 'no new political strategies or policy proposals.' What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and