White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility
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"Eva Boodman has written a much-needed book for our times and for the times to come so long as we continue to sustain a polity of white supremacy. This book is a major contribution to social epistemology, critical race theory, and whiteness studies. At its core is the thesis that race, epistemic practices, and ethical norms are entangled in the very fabric of our political institutions. Knowing and not knowing are not isolated events in the Cartesian theater of loneliness, but social-political-economic practices of social agents, of the Beauvorian, Sartrean, Millsian, Baldwinian, Alcoffian, and Westian type. We are as much what we know and aspire to know, as what we do not know, and refuse to know."
» Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University
White ignorance is a form of collective denial that aggressively resists acknowledging the role of race and racism. It dominates our political landscape, warps white moral frameworks and affective responses, intervenes in white self-conceptions, and organizes white identities. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781793639011
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"Eva Boodman has written a much-needed book for our times and for the times to come so long as we continue to sustain a polity of white supremacy. This book is a major contribution to social epistemology, critical race theory, and whiteness studies. At its core is the thesis that race, epistemic practices, and ethical norms are entangled in the very fabric of our political institutions. Knowing and not knowing are not isolated events in the Cartesian theater of loneliness, but social-political-economic practices of social agents, of the Beauvorian, Sartrean, Millsian, Baldwinian, Alcoffian, and Westian type. We are as much what we know and aspire to know, as what we do not know, and refuse to know."
» Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University