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Dark Times, Black Light: A Reply to Yankah, Kelly, and Mills

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Replies to symposium commentaries on the book Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.

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  1. See Ekow Yankah, “Whose Burden to Bear? Privilege, Lawbreaking and Race,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (this volume); Erin Kelly, “The Ethics of Law’s Authority,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (this volume); and Charles W. Mills, “Dark Mores: Some Comments on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (this volume).

  2. See Erin Kelly, The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018).

  3. See T. M. Scanlon, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), chap. 4.

  4. See Tommie Shelby, “Racial Realities and Corrective Justice: A Reply to Charles Mills,” Critical Philosophy of Race 1.2 (2013): 145–162.

  5. John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, ed. Erin Kelly (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 13.

  6. Tommie Shelby, “Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations,” Fordham Law Review 72 (2004): 1697–1714. Also see Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 22–35.

  7. Rawls, Justice as Fairness, p. 5.

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Shelby, T. Dark Times, Black Light: A Reply to Yankah, Kelly, and Mills. Criminal Law, Philosophy 16, 45–55 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09627-7

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