Race and epistemologies of ignorance / edited by Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sullivan, Shannon, 1967-

Tuana, Nancy.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and race.

SUNY series, philosophy and race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

vi, 276 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.

Contents:

Intro

Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I. Theorizing Ignorance

1. White Ignorance

2. Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types

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

4. Strategic Ignorance

5. Denying Relationality: Epistemology and Ethics and Ignorance

6. Managing Ignorance

PART II. Situating Ignorance

7. Race Problems, Unknown Publics,Paralysis, and Faith

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

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

10. Social Ordering and the Systematic Production of Ignorance

11. The Power of Ignorance

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

13. On the Absence of Biology in Philosophical Considerations of Race

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8003-8

1-4294-9823-4

OCLC:

172985124