Introduction
Sally Haslanger has suggested that the notion of institutional or structural racism is introduced to account for the possibility of forms of racial oppression (unjust racial hierarchy and inequality), carried out by social institutions, for which no individual is to blame, the underlying idea being that “the structures themselves, not individuals, are the problem” (Haslanger 2004: 107).1 Surely there is something right about this.
But does it entail that individuals are off the hook? Does the very idea of institutional racism require abandonment of the concept of individual responsibility? In what follows, I pursue this question. My primary concern throughout is with the implications of a structural conception of institutional racism for individual responsibility. At the end of this chapter, I will, however, briefly advert to an alternative, non-structural conception of institutional racism of the sort advocated by Jose Garcia, using it as a foil to sharpen our understanding of the relation between institutional racism generally and individual responsibility.35.2
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