Jordan Botello-Alcalá is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He also earned a graduate certificate in Africana Studies under the direction of Nathalie Etoké. His work sits at the intersection of social epistemology, philosophy of race, and social-political philosophy. His dissertation asks why members of racially oppressed populations sometimes act in ways that sustain the conditions of their own oppression. Supervised by Linda Martín Alcoff, the project draws on the Black Radical Tradition’s theories…
Jordan Botello-Alcalá is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). He also earned a graduate certificate in Africana Studies under the direction of Nathalie Etoké. His work sits at the intersection of social epistemology, philosophy of race, and social-political philosophy. His dissertation asks why members of racially oppressed populations sometimes act in ways that sustain the conditions of their own oppression. Supervised by Linda Martín Alcoff, the project draws on the Black Radical Tradition’s theories of racial capitalism to extend Charles Mills's concept of white ignorance into an account of ‘nonwhite white ignorance.’ Alongside his dissertation, Jordan pursues a second research program in philosophy of language focused on slurs and linguistic appropriation that is the continuation of the graduate research he conducted at Texas Tech University under the supervision of Christopher Hom and with Stephen Neale at the Graduate Center. Before coming to philosophy, Botello-Alcalá earned a degree in History & Education and taught high school in Texas and has since taught at Texas Tech University and multiple CUNY colleges.
