| Civil Rights legislation prohibited certain kinds of racism. Scholars disagree over the extent to which racism remains a persisting problem that impedes African Americans' access to goods, services, and opportunities. Some scholars deny that racism remains a problem that impedes African Americans' freedom and equality. Some scholars maintain that racism continues to be a persisting problem that impedes African Americans' access to goods, services, and opportunities. I argue that both of these groups of scholars thinking is to some extent adequate and inadequate for thinking about the persistence of racism. In this dissertation, I introduce some standards that an adequate conception should meet. I argue that the dialectic of recognition conception of racism is an adequate conception of racism because it allows us to think about the persistence of racism, while it avoids one-sided, atomistic, and static thinking. |
