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    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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    White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (2): 363-367. 2017.
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    The Racialization of Space
    Radical Philosophy Today 2 86-104. 2001.
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    Reciprocal Relations between Races: Jane Addams's Ambiguous Legacy
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (1). 2003.
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    Living across and through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4): 674-676. 2001.
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    Difficulties 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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    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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    Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
    Hypatia 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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    In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins , I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as dynamically co-constitutive. I then discuss the relationship of pragmatist feminism to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Nietzschean genealogy, and Darwinian evolutionary theory. Some of the specific concepts I examine include the anonymous body, the bodying organism, truth as…Read more
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    : In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins (Sullivan 2001), I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as dynamically co-constitutive. I then discuss the relationship of pragmatist feminism to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Nietzschean genealogy, and Darwinian evolutionary theory. Some of the specific concepts I examine include the anonymous body, the bodying o…Read more
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    Guest Editor's Introduction
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (2): 69-73. 2001.
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    W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1963
    In 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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    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, 1 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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    On revealing whiteness: A reply to critics
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (3). 2007.
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    The Hearts and Guts of White People
    Journal of Religious Ethics 42 (4): 591-611. 2014.
    Beginning with the experience of a white woman's stomach seizing up in fear of a black man, this essay examines some of the ethical and epistemological issues connected to white ignorance. In conversation with Charles Mills on the epistemology of ignorance, I argue that white ignorance primarily operates physiologically, not cognitively. Drawing critically from psychology, neurocardiology, and other medical sciences, I examine some of the biological effects of racism on white people's stomachs a…Read more
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    Feminism
    In 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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    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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    White world-traveling
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (4): 300-304. 2004.
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    "[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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    On the Need for a New Ethos of White Antiracism
    philoSOPHIA: 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