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The Colonial Slave Trade, Slavery and Structural Racial Injustice in France: Using Iris Marion Young's Social Connection Model of Responsibility

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The incorrect conceptualization and evaluation of reparations for the colonial slave trade and slavery, situating demands within the legal, as opposed to the political, domain, has in France resulted in an interpretation of such demands as morally absurd and politically deleterious. Using Iris Marion Young's distinction between a liability model and a social connection model of responsibility, I suggest that the moral claim according to which we (the French population) can today be considered responsible for redressing the structural injustices inherited from the slave trade and slavery is not irrational, nor motivated by a political will to divide the body politic between blamed perpetrators and innocent victims. I begin with an analysis of the difficulties posed by the liability model, focusing on a specific legal case, MIR and CMDP vs. the French state. I then argue that using a political model of responsibility resolves conceptual and normative issues and allows us to understand why, and to what extent, we-contemporary generations-are responsible for redressing the structural racial injustice that continues to endure in French society.
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halshs-02437142 , version 1 (13-01-2020)

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Magali Bessone. The Colonial Slave Trade, Slavery and Structural Racial Injustice in France: Using Iris Marion Young's Social Connection Model of Responsibility. Critical Horizons, 2019, ⟨10.1080/14409917.2019.1596216⟩. ⟨halshs-02437142⟩
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