"This Truncated Notion of Social Justice"

"Inequality is about the question of who gets what. But this question can be asked in two very different ways.
"One way is to ask what rewards accrue to people in different positions. How much, for example, are CEOs paid in relation to the average employee? What share of total wealth is held by the top 1%? What fraction of workers make less than $15 per hour?
"The other way is to ask what categories of people occupy which positions. What fraction, for example, of CEOs, the wealthiest 1% or low-wage workers are Black or Latino? 
"These questions—about unequal rewards between positions and disparate representation within positions—are not mutually exclusive. Both are important. Increasing concern over growing income and wealth inequality, especially since the financial crisis of 2008, has focused attention on the first question. Increasing concern over disparate representation in positions at both ends of the social and economic scale has focused attention on the second."
"The Reeds' critique of race reductionism is that it concentrates overwhelmingly on the second question at the expense of the first."

Rogers Brubaker at Persuasion discusses Adolph and Touré F. Reed's concept of "race reductionism."