Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

by Sullivan, Shannon

• ISBN13: 9780791471012
• ISBN10: 0791471012
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Theorizing Ignorance
White Ignorance	p. 11
Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types	p. 39
Ever Not Quite: Unfinished Theories, Unfinished Societies, and Pragmatism	p. 59
Strategic Ignorance	p. 77
Denying Relationality: Epistemology and Ethics and Ignorance	p. 95
Managing Ignorance	p. 119
Situating Ignorance
Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and Faith	p. 135
White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto Rico	p. 153
John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke: A Case Study in White Ignorance and Intellectual Segregation	p. 173
Social Ordering and the Systematic Production of Ignorance	p. 197
The Power of Ignorance	p. 213
On Needing Not to Know and Forgetting What One Never Knew: The Epistemology of Ignorance in Fanon's Critique of Sartre	p. 231
On the Absence of Biology in Philosophical Considerations of Race	p. 241
List of Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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