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100Feminist Epistemologies (edited book)Routledge. 1992."First Published in 1992, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
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95Dreaming of IrisPhilosophy Today 52 (Supplement): 4-9. 2008.This paper provides a memoir and overview of Iris Young's philosophy and a discussion of her account of gender identity
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83Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (edited book)SUNY Press. 2009.What is the norm of Americanness today, how has it changed, and how pluralistic is it in reality? from the Introduction In this volume philosophers and social ...
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73Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the SelfOxford University Press USA. 2006.In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging…Read more
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73Fraser on Redistribution, Recognition, and IdentityEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 255-265. 2007.This paper provides a critique of Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition and account of identity and redistribution
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70Does the Public Intellectual Have Intellectual Integrity?Metaphilosophy 33 (5): 521-534. 2002.This article is concerned with the devaluation of the work of public intellectuals within the academic community. The principal reason given for this devaluation is that the work of the public intellectual does not have intellectual integrity as independent thought and original scholarship. I develop three models of public intellectual work: the permanent–critic model, the popularizer model, and the public–theorist model. I then consider each model in relation to the concern with intellectual in…Read more
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69Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global FrameworkPhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 123-139. 2009.In this paper I make a preliminary analysis of Western (or global North) discourses on sexual violence, focusing on the important concepts of “consent” and “victim.” The concept of “consent” is widely used to determine whether sexual violence has occurred, and it is the focal point of debates over the legitimacy of statutory offenses and over the way we characterize sex work done under conditions involving economic desperation. The concept of “victim” is shunned by many feminists and nonfeminist…Read more
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54Epistemology: the big questions (edited book)Blackwell. 1998.Students of epistemology will be able to learn about and assess a wider range of epistemological issues than any other existing anthology can currently provide.
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53Adorno’s Dialectical RealismSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 45-65. 2010.The idea that Adorno should be read as a “realist” of any sort may indeed sound odd. And unpacking from Adorno’s elusive prose a credible and useful normative reconstruction of epistemology and metaphysics will take some work. But we argue that he should be added to the growing group of epistemologists and metaphysicians who have been developing post-positivist versions of realism such as contextual, internal, pragmatic and critical realisms. These latter realisms, however, while helpfully showi…Read more
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51The roots (and routes) of the epistemology of ignoranceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (1): 9-28. 2024.This paper elaborates on the idea of the epistemology of ignorance developed in Charles Mills’s work beginning in the 1980s and continuing throughout his writings. I I argue that his account developed initially from experiences of racism in north America as well as certain methods of organizing within parts of the Caribbean left. Essentially the epistemic practice of ignorance causes knowers to discredit or push away knowledge they in fact have. But this gives us cause for hope, for restoring ex…Read more
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49The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy (edited book)Blackwell. 2007.The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
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48Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, by Gary Gutting (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (4): 956-958. 1991.
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46The Persistent Power of Cultural RacismPhilosophy 98 (3): 249-271. 2023.Abstract‘Cultural racism’ is central to understanding racism today yet has receded into the background behind the focus on attitudinal racism. Even the turn to structural racism is largely circumscribed to inclusion without substantive challenge to existing processes or profit margins. When portions of the racist public are targeted, it is often the least elite members of society. Without question, the concept of cultural racism requires some clarification, but it will help bring the continued i…Read more
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43The Radical Future of #MeToo: The Effects of an Intersectional AnalysisSocial Philosophy Today 37 33-48. 2021.When feminist movements develop intersectional analyses of the problems they are addressing, especially to include race and class as well as other dimensions of society, their analyses of sexism will shift, and their demands will as a result become more structural, systemic, and radical. This paper will focus primarily on sexual harassment, with the understanding that harassment often escalates to coercive sex. I will argue that the future of the #MeToo movement not only should become more radic…Read more
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37Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in AmericaRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2016.Drawing from the lives of Ossie Davis, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as his own experience, and fully updated to account for what has transpired since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Yancy provides an invaluable resource for students and teachers of courses in African American Studies, African American History, Philosophy of Race, and anyone else who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.
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37Lugones's World-MakingCritical Philosophy of Race 8 (1-2): 199-211. 2020.This article reflects on the worlds that María Lugones has made and has transformed, particularly for the doing of feminist theory. Thus this article will be more exploratory than argumentative: to explore the lessons that Lugones's work holds, especially her work on pluralist feminism, world-traveling, the uses of anger, boomerang perception, and the multiplicitousness of both our selves and our communities, for our twenty-first-century challenges. This article argues that Lugones's work addres…Read more
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36Is conferralism descriptively adequate?European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 289-296. 2022.This paper will develop a set of concerns about a central feature of Ásta's account of social categories that she calls “conferralism.” I argue that generalist approaches to social categories such as Ásta provides are inadequate as a way of understanding the diverse formations of diverse categories, and that conferralism overemphasizes the power of top-down forces (what she calls “persons with standing”) to confer social identities. This approach then underplays the horizontal and bottom-up infl…Read more
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35Historicism and Knowledge, by Robert D'Amico (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 241-243. 1992.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |