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69Ethical 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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19Reciprocal Relations between Races: Jane Addams's Ambiguous LegacyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (1). 2003.
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47Remembering 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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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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230Pragmatism, Psychoanalysis, and Prejudice: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's The Anatomy of Prejudices (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (2). 2001.
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83The 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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31Intersections 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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81Domination 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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123Revealing 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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46On 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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260The 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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289Race 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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184Feminism 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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217Introduction: 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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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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241From the foreign to the familiar: Confronting Dewey confronting "racial prejudice"Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (3): 193-202. 2004.
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