Del i serien SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

559 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills's claim that racism involves an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance. Contributors explore how different forms of ignorance linked to race are produced and sustained and what role they play in promoting racism and white privilege. They argue that the ignorance that underpins racism is not a simple gap in knowledge, the accidental result of an epistemological oversight. In the case of racial oppression, ignorance often is actively produced for purposes of domination and exploitation. But as these essays demonstrate, ignorance is not simply a tool of oppression wielded by the powerful. It can also be a strategy for survival, an important tool for people of color to wield against white privilege and white supremacy. The book concludes that understanding ignorance and the politics of such ignorance should be a key element of epistemological and social/political analyses, for it has the potential to reveal the role of power in the construction of what is known and provide a lens for the political values at work in knowledge practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-05-10
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Antal sidor282
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791471029

Tillhör följande kategorier

IntroductionShannon Sullivan and Nancy TuanaPart I: Theorizing Ignorance 1. White IgnoranceCharles W. Mills2. Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three TypesLinda Martín Alcoff3. Ever Not Quite: Unfinished Theories, Unfinished Societies, and PragmatismHarvey Cormier4. Strategic IgnoranceAlison Bailey5. Denying Relationality: Epistemology and Ethics and IgnoranceSarah Lucia Hoagland6. Managing IgnoranceElizabeth V. SpelmanPart II: Situating Ignorance 7. Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and FaithPaul C. Taylor8. White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto RicoShannon Sullivan9. John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke: A Case Study in White Ignorance and Intellectual SegregationFrank Margonis10. Social Ordering and the Systematic Production of IgnoranceLucius T. Outlaw (Jr.)11. The Power of IgnoranceLorraine Code12. On Needing Not to Know and Forgetting What One Never Knew: The Epistemology of Ignorance in Fanon’s Critique of SartreRobert Bernasconi13. On the Absence of Biology in Philosophical Considerations of RaceStephanie Malia FullertonList of ContributorsIndex

"This anthology brings together some very prominent philosophers to address one of the most embarrassing and blatantly ignored elephants in philosophy: ignorance. While philosophers claim to be children of Socrates, who alone was virtuous and courageous enough to recognize the fecundity of ignorance, few have really addressed it with the verve and originality displayed in the contributions to this volume. I consider it a must-have for libraries, faculty, and graduate students." — Eduardo Mendieta, editor of The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers

Du kanske också är intresserad av