How to Make Opportunity Equal - Race and Contributive Justice

This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice.

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• Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects
  
• Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour
  
• Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality
  
• Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social relationships would be transformed, eliminating competition for limited opportunities to develop and contribute abilities

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Paul Gomberg is Professor of Philosophy at Chicago State University. He has published widely in political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and on race in journals such as Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of Social Philosophy. His writing reflects his experience as an anti-racist activist and teacher.