Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

Name: Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
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ISBN: 9780791471029

ISBN-10: 0791471020

ISBN-13: 9780791471029

Edition: 2007

Authors: Shannon Sullivan, Nancy Tuana

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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,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 5/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Shannon Sullivan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins (IUP, 2001).



Introduction


Theorizing Ignorance


White Ignorance


Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types


Ever Not Quite: Unfinished Theories, Unfinished Societies, and Pragmatism


Strategic Ignorance


Denying Relationality: Epistemology and Ethics and Ignorance


Managing Ignorance


Situating Ignorance


Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and Faith


White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto Rico


John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke: A Case Study in White Ignorance and Intellectual Segregation


Social Ordering and the Systematic Production of Ignorance


The Power of Ignorance


On Needing Not to Know and Forgetting What One Never Knew: The Epistemology of Ignorance in Fanon's Critique of Sartre


On the Absence of Biology in Philosophical Considerations of Race


List of Contributors


Index