[Jennifer] Cramblett in effect sued [in Cramblett v. Midwest Sperm Bank] for âwrongful racismâ; she did not receive the whiteness bargained for and so sued under terms suggesting she is due compensation for the factânot that there is racismâbut that she now has to deal with it personally. One might question, for example, why the couple supposedly didnât feel any qualms about raising a white child in a town that is âtoo racially intolerant.â âWrongful birthâsâ transition into the realm of race significantly marks a recognition of the social, political, and environmental issues sustaining racism and its associated harms, but the problem here is the site of redressâthe white mothersârather than the environment lending credence to their case in the first place. Cramblett describes a personal loss that relies on structural analyses to articulate, all the while refusing to vilify those structures as problems in themselves.
Desiree Valentine, âWomen in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics,â Blog of the APA, August 14, 2019. https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/08/14/women-in-philosophy-cramblett-race-disability-and-liberatory-politics/.