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Knowing otherwise : race, gender, and implicit understanding / Alexis Shotwell.

LIBRA E185.86 .S586 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shotwell, Alexis, 1974-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Black people--Race identity.
Black people.
Gender identity.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 180 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
Summary:
"Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding"--Provided by publishers.
Contents:
Theories of implicit understanding
Racialized common sense
An aesthetics of sensuousness
Negative affect and whiteness
Enacting solidarity
A knowing that resided in my bones.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780271037639
0271037636
OCLC:
644149775

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