PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Institutional Racism, Civic Engagement
8 Nov 2016
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Lecture thomas shelby, justice, deviance, and the dark ghetto . A background premise of shelby"s article is that the conditions that structure life in the ghetto are unjust, and he argues for this point. However, his central topic is an examination of evaluations and criticism that are made of the ghetto poor and their behavior, and an evaluation of these evaluations. That is, shelby is replying to a series of critiques of the ghetto poor, and finds some of them valid, and others invalid. In a sense, the article parallels the methodology of king"s letter from a birmingham jail , which was also organized as a series of replies. The important difference is that king"s letter replied to objections that had been directed at him, or at a movement of which he was a part. Shelby responds on behalf of the ghetto poor, and his role in the (imagined) dialogue is less clear.
