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17White PriorityCritical Philosophy of Race 5 (2): 171-182. 2017.This article introduces the concept of white priority and challenges the false universalism built into the concept of white privilege. Proceeding from the perspective of “trash crit,” the article analyzes white domination from the perspective of poor and working class white people. While racial advantages exist for poor and working class white people, the concept of white privilege does not capture them well. The concept of white priority—the sense of coming before another, of not being at “the …Read more
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14Smadditizin' Across the Years: Race and Class in the Work of Charles MillsCritical Philosophy of Race 5 (1): 1-18. 2017.This article analyzes the changing relationship of race and class in the work of Charles Mills. Mills tells the story of his career by tracing an arc “from class to race,” which includes “an evolution of both focus and approach” that shifts the terms of his work “from red to black.” The article complicates this story by reading Mills's evolution through an intersectional lens. An intersectional approach to Mills's work allows a better appreciation of how he does not move from class to race in th…Read more
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13Damn Great Empires! William James and the Politics of Pragmatism by Alexander LivingstonTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (2): 209-213. 2019.I admit that when I think of pragmatism’s contributions to political philosophy, I primarily think of Jane Addams and John Dewey. Their contributions to democratic theory and practice have been extremely important in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, so much so that “pragmatist politics” and “Deweyan democracy” are virtually synonymous. I also think of W.E.B. Du Bois’s criticisms of anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the United States and across the globe. In any case, my first ins…Read more
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13Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (3): 237-242. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Editors' IntroductionAlan D. Schrift and Shannon SullivanThe articles in this special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy were selected from revised versions of papers that were originally presented at the sixtieth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas October 13–15, 2022.Michael Hardt of Duke University and Patricia Pisters of th…Read more
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12W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1963In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: The Dual Vision of Black People The Status of Race and the Contributions of Black People “The Negro Problem”
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11Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2021.This anthology demonstrates that US Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production.
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11Ontology and Emotion in Reflexive Design PracticesThe Pluralist 17 (1): 84-88. 2022.i am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Josina Vink’s rich paper on “Designing for Plurality in Democracy by Building Reflexivity.” Vink suggests that design has its roots in pragmatism and that by returning to them, design can improve itself by becoming more pluralistic and less colonizing in its effects. Focusing on health care systems in particular, Vink emphasizes reflexivity as crucial for the decolonizing of design. As Vink argues, reflexivity can help cultivate epistemic humili…Read more
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9Raced and Gendered Scripts in Public Backlash against Critical Philosophers of RacePhilosophy Today 62 (4): 1249-1253. 2018.
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7PragmatismIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 64--78. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Pragmatism and Experience Classical Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Contemporary Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Conclusion References Suggested Further Reading.
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78 James and Feminist Philosophy of EmotionIn Erin C. Tarver & Shannon Sullivan (eds.), Feminist interpretations of William James, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 189-209. 2015.
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7Race After BeauvoirIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.Focusing on The Second Sex, this chapter examines concerns about the divisions of gender and race in Beauvoir's work and provides an intersectional reading of the role of physical violence in the gendering and racing of young girls in “The Girl” chapter of the book. The chapter then highlights the role of biology in the existential infrastructure provided in the first three chapters of The Second Sex to argue that Beauvoir can be viewed as a forerunner of contemporary critical understandings of …Read more
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5IntroductionIn Erin C. Tarver & Shannon Sullivan (eds.), Feminist interpretations of William James, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-12. 2015.
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2(Re)construction ZoneIn William J. Gavin (ed.), In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, State University of New York Press. pp. 109-127. 2003.
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2FeminismIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Classical Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Contemporary Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Conclusion.
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210 Whiteness as FamilyIn Shannon Sullivan & Dennis J. Schmidt (eds.), Difficulties of ethical life, Fordham University Press. pp. 162-178. 2008.
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2IntroductionIn Shannon Sullivan & Dennis J. Schmidt (eds.), Difficulties of ethical life, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-8. 2008.
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1Difficulties of ethical life (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2008.Questions of ethics -- The ethics of intersubjectivity and interpersonal relations -- Responsibility and race -- The ethics of nontruth.
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Feminist Approaches to Intersection of Pragmatism and Continental PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Dumping on Southern "White Trash": Etiquette and AbjectionIn Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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Enigma variation: Laplanchean psychoanalysis and the formation of the raced unconsciousRadical Philosophy 122. 2003.
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Introduction: Doing Philosophy from Southern StandpointsIn Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression (review)Radical Philosophy 135. 2006.
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'Prophetic Vision and Trash Talkin': Pragmatism, Feminism, and Racial PrivilegeIn Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Indiana University Press. pp. 186. 2009.
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