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5Kierkegaard, Choice, and ZentropaTeaching Philosophy 19 (1): 49-64. 1996.This paper outlines the effectiveness of films as a pedagogical tool for teaching philosophy. For the author, a film skillfully explores philosophical issues, capturing students’ attention and providing a setting for discussion. The author focuses on the use of Lars von Trier's Zentropa as a beneficial tool for discussion of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or. The film adequately illustrates the two positions of the aesthete and the judge, and demonstrates the adverse affects of avoiding choice in one's li…Read more
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5Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical spacePhilosophy and Geography 7 (1): 9-24. 2004.While Sigmund Freud and Maurice Merleau‐Ponty both acknowledge the role that spatiality plays in human life, neither pays any explicit attention to the intersections of race and space. It is Franz Fanon who uses psychoanalysis and phenomenology to provide an account of how the psychical and lived bodily existence of black people is racially constituted by a racist world. More precisely, as I argue in this paper, Fanon's work demonstrates how psychical and bodily spatiality cannot be adequately u…Read more
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33White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria WekkerphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (2): 363-367. 2017.
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3Reciprocal Relations between Races: Jane Addams's Ambiguous LegacyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (1). 2003.
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7Remembering the Gift: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Unconscious and Economic Operations of RacismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2). 2003.
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2Living across and through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and FeminismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4): 674-676. 2001.
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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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4Intersections between pragmatist and continental feminismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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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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15Domination and Dialogue in Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionHypatia 12 (1): 1-19. 1997.Merleau-Ponty's claim in Phenomenology of Perception (1962) that the anonymous body guarantees an intersubjective world is problematic because it omits the particularities of bodies. This omission produces an account of "dialogue" with another in which I solipsistically hear only myself and dominate others with my intentionality. This essay develops an alternative to projective intentionality called "hypothetical construction," in which meaning is socially constructed through an appreciation of …Read more
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9Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial PrivilegeIndiana University Press. 2006."[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience." —Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and selfsearching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken pr…Read more
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7On the Need for a New Ethos of White AntiracismphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2 (1): 21-38. 2012.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:On the Need for a New Ethos of White AntiracismShannon SullivanWhite people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.—James Baldwin, The Fire Next TimeIn his classic manifesto on race, The Fire Next Time, James B…Read more
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8The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (4): 303-306. 2003.
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58The Physiology of Sexist and Racist OppressionOxford University Press USA. 2015.While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. This means that to be fully successful, critical philosophy of race and feminist philosophy need to examine not only the financial, legal, political and other forms of racist and sexism oppression, but also their physiological operations. Examining a complex tangle of affects, emotions, knowledge, and privilege, The …Read more
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31Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (edited book)State Univ of New York Pr. 2007.Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.
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8Feminism and phenomenology: A reply to Silvia StollerHypatia 15 (1): 183-188. 2000.: Responding to Silvia Stoller's comments on "Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception" (Sullivan 1997), I argue that while phenomenology has much to offer feminism, feminists should be wary of Merleau-Ponty's notion of projective intentionality because of the ethical solipsism that it tends to involve. I also take the opportunity to clarify the concept of hypothetical construction introduced in the earlier paper, in particular the transformative relationship that i…Read more
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43Introduction: Feminist epistemologies of ignoranceHypatia 21 (3): 1-19. 2006.This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpful site for understanding how to identify, critiqu…Read more
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1PragmatismIn 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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4From the foreign to the familiar: Confronting Dewey confronting "racial prejudice"Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (3): 193-202. 2004.
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22Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionHypatia 12 (1): 1-19. 1997.Merleau-Ponty's claim in Phenomenology of Perception that the anonymous body guarantees an intersubjective world is problematic because it omits the particularities of bodies. This omission produces an account of “dialogue” with another in which I solipsistically hear only myself and dominate others with my intentionality. This essay develops an alternative to projective intentionality called “hypothetical construction,” in which meaning is socially constructed through an appreciation of the dif…Read more
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11Whiteness as wise provincialism: Royce and the rehabilitation of a racial categoryTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2). 2008.Against the backdrop of eliminitivist versus critical conservationist approaches to the racial category of whiteness, this article asks whether a rehabilitated version of whiteness can be worked out concretely. What might a non-oppressive, anti-racist whiteness look like? Turning to Josiah Royce’s “Provincialism” for help answering this question, I show that even though the essay never explicitly discusses race, it can help explain the ongoing need for the category of whiteness and implicitly of…Read more
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25Reconfiguring gender with John Dewey: Habit, bodies, and cultural changeHypatia 15 (1): 23-42. 2000.: This paper demonstrates how John Dewey's notion of habit can help us understand gender as a constitutive structure of bodily existence. Bringing Dewey's pragmatism in conjunction with Judith Butler's concept of performativity, I provide an account of how rigid binary configurations of gender might be transformed at the level of both individual habit and cultural construct
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9Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and FeminismIndiana University Press. 2001.According to Shannon Sullivan, thinking about the body as being in transaction with its social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not a new idea.
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26Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia StollerHypatia 15 (1): 183-188. 2000.Responding to Silvia Stoller's comments on “Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception”, I argue that while phenomenology has much to offer feminism, feminists should be wary of Merleau-Ponty's notion of projective intentionality because of the ethical solipsism that it tends to involve. I also take the opportunity to clarify the concept of hypothetical construction introduced in the earlier paper, in particular the transformative relationship that it has to pre-refle…Read more
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