Introduction To Social Justice

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premised on notion of ruling-class domination, domination achieved through coercion, exploitation.

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Marxism

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notion of domination AND hegemony, coercion AND consent. Hegemony is not just “top-down,” but ideological. Hegemony is folded into, perpetuated through “common sense.”

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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)

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argues that power is diffused throughout society at different scales. Decentralizes power, no one source from which power emanates, rather society is disciplined in the relationship between knowledge and power, Used the panopticon as metaphor for modern disciplinary power.

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Michel Foucault (1926-84)

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Race as Biological Concept in early colonial period (18-19th centuries)

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Scientific Racism

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(beg. 18th century) socio-historical concept

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Race as social concept

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ideology as a mediator between systems of power and individuals, allows for hegemonic power to reproduce itself by obscuring traditional forms of repression and incorporating individuals into the power structure.

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Louis Althusser (1918-90)
(The concept of interpellation)

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renders individuals subject, makes them complicit in their own domination.

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Interpellation

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What is the relationship between race and the state?

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“racial Interpellation”

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signifies correspondence between a group of different objects, persons, processes or circumstances that have the same qualities in at least one respect, but not all respects
(Think of the idea of equality or for that matter inequality, understood as an issue of social justice)

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Equality

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the view that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good; the right action is understood entirely in terms of consequences produced.

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Utilitarianism

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The moral view that agents initially fully own themselves and have certain moral powers to acquire property rights in external things.

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Libertarianism

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a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability

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Meritocracy

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Distributive - fairness in what people receive
Procedural - fair play
Restorative - restitution, the correction of wrongs
Retributive - revenge, retribution.

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Justice

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—every man—as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

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Individualism

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the authority of a state to control what happens in its territory

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sovereignty

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two concepts:
1st: whiteness as something to be attained for economic and social gain
2nd: whiteness as reinforced as a privilege by the american law

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Cheryl Harris- Whiteness as property

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an administrative process by which the federal government holds people it wants to deport in prisons and prison-like "detention facilities" throughout the country.

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Detention

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a goal of protecting the borders and territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks

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Security

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The parameters that surround the U.S.

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Borders

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ILLEGAL vs. Undocumented: No human being is illegal..calling someone assumes that they are not human they may not have papers but they are still people.

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Illegal/Undocumented

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These are set up to make it extremely hard to become a citizen.

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Law and Order