Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.
Edited by:
Shannon Sullivan,
Nancy Tuana
Imprint: State Univ New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780791471029
ISBN 10: 0791471020
Series: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana Part I: Theorizing Ignorance 1. White Ignorance Charles W. Mills 2. Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types Linda Martin Alcoff 3. Ever Not Quite: Unfinished Theories, Unfinished Societies, and Pragmatism Harvey Cormier 4. Strategic Ignorance Alison Bailey 5. Denying Relationality: Epistemology and Ethics and Ignorance Sarah Lucia Hoagland 6. Managing Ignorance Elizabeth V. Spelman Part II: Situating Ignorance 7. Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and Faith Paul C. Taylor 8. White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto Rico Shannon Sullivan 9. John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke: A Case Study in White Ignorance and Intellectual Segregation Frank Margonis 10. Social Ordering and the Systematic Production of Ignorance Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) 11. The Power of Ignorance Lorraine Code 12. On Needing Not to Know and Forgetting What One Never Knew: The Epistemology of Ignorance in Fanon's Critique of Sartre Robert Bernasconi 13. On the Absence of Biology in Philosophical Considerations of Race Stephanie Malia Fullerton List of Contributors Index
Reviews for Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
""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
