Applicative justice a pragmatic empirical approach to racial injustice naomi zack rowman littlefield publishers zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal but injustice as a correctable ill keywords the injustice of us police racial profiling and homicide. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Buy the hardcover book applicative justice a pragmatic empirical approach to racial injustice by naomi zack at indigoca canadas largest bookstore free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Applicative justice shows how philosophical theories of ideal justice are unable to imagine or perceive the background conditions and mechanisms by which actual cases of injustice emerge with a focus on racial injustice zack explores the works of both neglected and celebrated political theorists in order to locate better tools for normative