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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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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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13Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through SkinsHypatia 17 (4): 201-217. 2002.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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The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression (review)Radical Philosophy 135. 2006.
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9Pragmatist feminism as ecological ontology: Reflections onHypatia 17 (4): 201-217. 2002.: 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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26Democracy and the Individual: To What Extent Is Dewey's Reconstruction Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming?Philosophy Today 41 (2): 299-312. 1997.
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8Book review: Stacy Alaimo. Feminist spaces: Undomesticated ground: Recasting nature as feminist space ithaca, N.y.: Cornell university press, 2000; Elizabeth Grosz. Architecture from the outside: Essays on virtual and real space); and radhika mohanram. Black body: Women, colonialism, and space (review)Hypatia 19 (3): 209-216. 2004.
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3W. 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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36Reconfiguring 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, 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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Feminist Approaches to Intersection of Pragmatism and Continental PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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3Pragmatism, Psychoanalysis, and Prejudice: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's The Anatomy of Prejudices (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (2). 2001.
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12The Hearts and Guts of White PeopleJournal 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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'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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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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