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    Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan’s report on the black family and the Kerner Commission’s investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today 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 (...)
  2. Justice, deviance, and the dark ghetto.Tommie Shelby - 2007 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2):126–160.
  3. Ideology, racism, and critical social theory.Tommie Shelby - 2003 - Philosophical Forum 34 (2):153–188.
  4. The Idea of Prison Abolition.Tommie Shelby - 2022 - Princeton University Press.
    An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or “the new Jim Crow.” Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended (...)
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    To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.) - 2018 - Harvard University Press.
    "On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassination, his political thought remains underappreciated. Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry, along with a cast of distinguished contributors, engage critically with King's understudied writings on a wide range of compelling, challenging topics and rethink the legacy of this towering figure."--Provided by publisher.
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    Racial Realities and Corrective Justice.Tommie Shelby - 2013 - Critical Philosophy of Race 1 (2):145-162.
    I reply to Mills's critique of my effort to show the relevance of Rawls's theory of justice for thinking about and responding to racial injustices. Contrary to Mills's claims, my suggestion that the fair equality of opportunity principle can remedy socioeconomic disadvantages caused by the legacy of racial oppression is compatible with Rawls's framework, does not conflate distributive justice with corrective justice, and does not confuse racial injustice with economic injustice. I also raise doubts about Mills's project to radically reconstruct (...)
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  7. Is racism in the "heart"?Tommie Shelby - 2002 - Journal of Social Philosophy 33 (3):411–420.
  8. Foundations of Black solidarity: Collective identity or common oppression?Tommie Shelby - 2002 - Ethics 112 (2):231-266.
  9. Integration, Inequality, and Imperatives of Justice: A Review Essay.Tommie Shelby - 2014 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 42 (3):253-285.
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    We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity.Tommie Shelby - 2005 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
    African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist times through the Black Power movement, it was widely seen as a means of securing a full share of America's promised freedom and equality. Yet today, many believe that black solidarity is unnecessary, irrational, rooted in the illusion of "racial" difference, at odds with the goal of integration, and incompatible with liberal ideals and American democracy. A response to such critics, We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical (...)
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    Justice, Work, and the Ghetto Poor.Tommie Shelby - 2012 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 6 (1):69-96.
    In view of the explanatory significance of joblessness, some social scientists, policymakers, and commentators have advocated strong measures to ensure that the ghetto poor work, including mandating work as a condition of receiving welfare benefits. Indeed, across the ideological political spectrum, work is often seen as a moral or civic duty and as a necessary basis for personal dignity. And this normative stance is now instantiated in federal and state law, from the tax scheme to public benefits. This Article reflects (...)
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    Reflections on Boxill's Blacks and Social Justice.Tommie Shelby - 2010 - Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (3):343-353.
  13. After… word! The philosophy of the hip-hop battle.Marcyliena Morgan, Derrick Darby & Tommie Shelby - 2005 - In Derrick Darby & Tommie Shelby (eds.), Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason. Open Court.
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    Ist Rassismus eine Sache des „Herzens“?Tommie Shelby - 2019 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (4):604-618.
    In his article, Shelby critically engages with a conception of racism that locates racism in the “heart” of individuals. Such a volitional conception, which has been proposed by Jorge Garcia, suffers from several defects, the most important of which are that it is difficult to identify racist attitudes without recourse to racist beliefs and that such a conception of racism does not allow to see how individuals can be complicit in race-based oppression in the absence of racial hatred or ill (...)
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  15. Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason.Derrick Darby & Tommie Shelby (eds.) - 2005 - Open Court.
    all the violence in hip hop? Does po-po wield legit authority in the hood? Where does the real Kimberly Jones end and the persona Lil' Kim begin? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thang?
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    9. Prisons of the Forgotten: Ghettos and Economic Injustice.Tommie Shelby - 2018 - In Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press. pp. 187-204.
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    The Ethics of Uncle Tom's Children.Tommie Shelby - 2012 - Critical Inquiry 38 (3):513-532.
    How should one live? This central philosophical question can be separated into at least two parts. The first concerns the conduct and attitudes morality requires of each of us. The second is about the essential elements of a worthwhile life; it's about what it means to flourish, which includes meeting certain moral demands but is not exhausted by this. Answering this two-pronged question traditionally falls within the subdiscipline of ethics, broadly construed. Philosophers have also sought to explain what makes a (...)
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    Contents.Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby - 2018 - In Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press.
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  19. Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy.Lionel K. McPherson & Tommie Shelby - 2006 - Philosophy 2 (2).
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    Thinking about prisons: A response to O’Flaherty, Sethi, and Murphy.Tommie Shelby - forthcoming - Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
    I provide a response to the commentaries on my book The Idea of Prison Abolition (2022) by Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi and by Colleen Murphy. With respect to the first commentary, I briefly discuss the comparison of US prisons to Norwegian prisons; the deterrent effect of well-crafted sentences; and the prospects of a world without prisons. In response to the second commentary, I argue that the methods of the scholar-activist and those of the analytic political philosopher are not incompatible (...)
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  21. Race, Culture, and Black Self‐Determination.Tommie Shelby, Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta - 2009 - In Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire. Indiana University Press.
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    9. Impure Dissent.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 252-274.
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    8. Punishment.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 228-251.
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    (1 other version)“I'm not a Racist, but...”: The Moral Quandary of Race.Tommie Shelby - 2003 - Philosophical Review 112 (1):124-126.
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    Parasites, pimps, and capitalists: A naturalistic conception of exploitation.Tommie Shelby - 2002 - Social Theory and Practice 28 (3):381--418.
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    Dark Times, Black Light: A Reply to Yankah, Kelly, and Mills.Tommie Shelby - 2022 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 16 (1):45-55.
    Replies to symposium commentaries on the book Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.
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    Thinking about Race, Responding to Racial Inequality.Tommie Shelby - 2019 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 26:1-5.
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    (1 other version)Acknowledgments.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 325-328.
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  29. Book Note on David Ingram, Group Rights.Tommie Shelby - 2002 - Ethics 112.
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    3. Culture.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 80-116.
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    2. Community.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 49-79.
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    7. Crime.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 203-227.
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    Contents.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press.
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    Epilogue: Renewing Ghetto Abolitionism.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 275-284.
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    Frontmatter.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press.
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    5. Family.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 142-174.
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    Hip-Hop as Impure Social Dissent.Tommie Shelby - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 76:58-60.
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    (1 other version)Index.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 329-340.
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    1. Injustice.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 19-48.
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    Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Political Philosophy.Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry - 2018 - In Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press. pp. 1-16.
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    Introduction: Rethinking the Problem of the Ghetto.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 1-16.
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  42. Marxism and the Critique of Moral Ideology.Tommie Shelby - 1998 - Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
    Marxists often make claims about the content, causes, and social functions of ideologies. Perhaps the most iconoclastic of these is the thesis that mortality is ideological . But given certain other commitments of Marxism, it is difficult to make sense of this thesis, let alone assess its truth. For while clearly the moral ideology thesis is meant as a severe criticism of morality, one that seems to preclude Marxism from consistently offering a moral critique of class societies, Marxists seem to (...)
     
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    Notes.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 285-324.
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    4. Reproduction.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 119-141.
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    Racism, Identity, and Latinos: A Comment on Alcoff.Tommie Shelby - 2009 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 47 (S1):129-136.
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    (1 other version)Two Conceptions of Black Nationalism.Tommie Shelby - 2003 - Political Theory 31 (5):664-692.
    The essay provides both an interpretation and a theoretical reconstruction of the political philosophy of Martin Delany, a mid-nineteenth-century radical abolitionist and one of the founders of the doctrine of black nationalism. It identifies two competing strands in Delany's social thought, "classical" nationalism and "pragmatic" nationalism, where each underwrites a different conception of the analytical and normative underpinnings of black political solidarity. It is argued that the pragmatic variant is the more cogent of the two and the one to which (...)
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    The Ethics of Ghetto Abolitionism.Tommie Shelby - 2018 - Social Philosophy Today 34:175-181.
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    The Lessons and Limits of Prison Abolition: Replies to Critics.Tommie Shelby - forthcoming - Criminal Law and Philosophy:1-13.
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    6. Work.Tommie Shelby - 2016 - In Clarissa Rile Hayward (ed.), The Demand of Justice: Symposium on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby. Harvard University Press. pp. 175-200.
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    Contributors.Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby - 2018 - In Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press. pp. 421-424.
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