8. Racism and Impure Hearts

Lengbeyer, Lawrence

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“…Engaging in sincere, effortful work to confront and minimise one's own racist whiteliness, if it does not displace meaningful efforts to redress the structural causes of racial injustice itself, seems eminently worthwhile. Mills cites Lengbeyer's (2004) suggestion that the goal of moral "purification", involving the "cleansing" of whitely thoughts from one's conception is naïve and unproductive, and that a better approach involves habituation in the recognition, management, and control of racist ideas to minimise their role in cognition. Nonetheless, it does not follow that shame is an inappropriate response to learning of one's whitely ways.…”

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On learning how to live in this strange place

Buckland

2018

South African Journal of Philosophy

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In "How do I live in this strange place?", Samantha Vice contends that white South Africans ought to feel shame for their unjustly acquired privilege and their morally compromised selves, and recommends that they engage with humility and political silence in projects of personal transformation though private, critical self-examination. On one view, philosophy is in part concerned with practical inquiry into how one might lead a good life, and for many, at least, this necessitates some form of moral learning. Ideally, the philosophers concerned with this question could give practical, action-guiding advice on how one might undertake this moral learning, advice well-supported by evidence and with reasonably good prospects for success. I argue that philosophically "therapeutic" projects of the kind advocated by Vice necessarily involve forms of moral learning, and that a range of empirical research in cognitive, moral, and educational psychology thus bear on their methods and prospects. These considerations undermine the outlook of therapeutic projects that rely principally on solitary methods of critical reflection and introspection. I challenge philosophers to develop more practical, actionable, evidence-based counsel on how to engage in moral learning of the type that Vice and her critics recommend, and I articulate several candidate proposals inspired by research from the educational, learning sciences and debiasing literatures.

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On learning how to live in this strange place

Buckland

2018

South African Journal of Philosophy

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The Moral Psychology Handbook

Doris¹

2010

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Race and Racial Cognition

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Machery²,

Mallon³

2010

The Moral Psychology Handbook

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A core question of contemporary social morality concerns how we ought to handle racial categorization. By this we mean, for instance, classifying or thinking of a person as Black, Korean, Latino, White, etc.² While it is widely FN:2 agreed that racial categorization played a crucial role in past racial oppression, there remains disagreement among philosophers and social theorists about the ideal role for racial categorization in future endeavors. At one extreme of this disagreement are short-term eliminativists who want to do away with racial categorization relatively quickly (e.g.

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8. Racism and Impure Hearts

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On learning how to live in this strange place

On learning how to live in this strange place

The Moral Psychology Handbook

Race and Racial Cognition

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