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On Gaslighting and Epistemic Injustice: Editor's IntroductionHypatia 35 (4): 667-673. 2020.Social justice demands that we attend carefully to the epistemic terrains we inhabit as well as to the epistemic resources we summon to make our lived experiences tangible to one another. Not all epistemic terrains are hospitable—colonial projects landscaped a good portion of our epistemic terrain long before present generations moved across it. There is no shared epistemicterra firma,no level epistemic common ground where knowers share credibility and where a diversity of hermeneutical resource…Read more
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Mothering, diversity and peace: Comments on Sara Ruddick's feminist maternal peace politicsJournal of Social Philosophy 26 (1): 162-182. 1994.Sara Ruddick's contemporary philosophical account of mothering reconsiders the maternal arguments used in the women's peace movements of the earlier part of this century. The culmination of this project is her 1989 book, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace. Ruddick's project is ground-breaking work in both academic philosophy and feminist theory. In this chapter, I first look at the relationship between the two basic components of Ruddick's argument in Maternal Thinking: the "practic…Read more
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The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and IgnoranceLexington Books. 2021.Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what p…Read more
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The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2021.
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