Discrimination and Disidentification: The Fair-Start Defense of Affirmative Action |
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Authors: | K. E. Himma |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Washington, Box 353350, Seattle, WA, 98195, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The Fair-Start Defense justifies affirmative action preferences as a response to harms caused by race- and sex-based discrimination. Rather than base a justification for preferences on the traditional appeal to self-esteem, I argue they are justified in virtue of the effects institutional discrimination has on the goals and aspirations of its victims. In particular, I argue that institutional discrimination puts women and blacks at an unfair competitive disadvantage by causing academic disidentification. Affirmative action is justified as a means of negating this unfair disadvantage. |
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