Booker T. Washington and the Sociology of Black Deficit

Jorgensen, Carl C.

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“…The representative is thereby imbued with power to attribute interests to the represented whether or not they are accurate ( epistemic ). Additionally, when the represented are oppressed or marginalized, it is difficult for them to reject, protest, or correct mistaken impressions ( overpowering , unaccountable ), particularly if their representative is not inclined to announce complaints on their behalves: “Washington strove publicly and secretly to take over control of newspapers to advance his message and suppress dissent” (Jorgensen, 2005, p. 117; see also Du Bois, 1903/1999, pp. 36–37).…”

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Democracy within, justice without: The duties of informal political representatives¹

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Informal political representation can be a political lifeline, particularly for oppressed and marginalized groups.Such representation can give these groups some say, however mediate, partial, and imperfect, in how things go for them. Coeval with the political goods such representation offers these groups are its particular dangers to them. Mindful of these dangers, skeptics challenge the practice for being, inter alia, unaccountable, unauthorized, inegalitarian, and oppressive. These challenges provide strong pro tanto reasons to think the practice morally impermissible. This paper considers the question: On what conditions is the informal political representation of oppressed and marginalized groups permissible? By responding to skeptics' challenges, I develop a systematic account of moral constraints that, if adopted, would make such representation permissible. The account that emerges shows that informal political representatives (IPRs) must aim to fulfill two sets of sometimes conflicting duties to the represented: democracy within duties, which concern how the representative treats and relates to the represented, and justice without duties, which concern how the representative's actions advance the aims of the representation.

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Democracy within, justice without: The duties of informal political representatives¹

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Booker T. Washington and the Sociology of Black Deficit

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