Elvira Basevich

Resistance and Racism: On Moral Psychology and Moral Incentive in Nonideal Circumstances

A Kantian reconstruction of racialized moral psychology can illuminate the late Charles Mills’s account of white complicity. Unfortunately, philosophers have comparatively less to say about the incentive structure of the oppressed to participate in the systems that oppress them. Drawing on W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion o...