Structural Injustice

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What is structural injustice, and what is unjust about it? “Structural racism” (or sexism) is often said to be a kind of racism that can be present even without any racists (or sexists). Natural disasters can obviously bad, but they are not (it seems) wrong. If structural injustice is not a species of (any configuration of) individual moral wrongs, then how is it wrong and not (only) bad in the manner of a natural disaster? In this class we will study these and related questions through discussion of recent philosophical literature.