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302Pragmatist 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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287Race 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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258The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (4): 303-306. 2003.
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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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211Introduction: 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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120Revealing 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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94Whiteness as wise provincialism: Royce and the rehabilitation of a racial categoryTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2). 2008.Against the backdrop of eliminitivist versus critical conservationist approaches to the racial category of whiteness, this article asks whether a rehabilitated version of whiteness can be worked out concretely. What might a non-oppressive, anti-racist whiteness look like? Turning to Josiah Royce’s “Provincialism” for help answering this question, I show that even though the essay never explicitly discusses race, it can help explain the ongoing need for the category of whiteness and implicitly of…Read more
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78The 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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71Rituals of White Privilege: Keith Lamont Scott and the Erasure of Black SufferingAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 39 (1): 34-52. 2018.In the twenty-first century, 70.6 percent of Americans self-identify as Christians,1 58 percent of them still segregate themselves by race on Sunday mornings, and white Protestants make up the majority of this 58 percent.2 These facts belie the claim, popularized after Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election, that America is living in a postracial society3 And yet, the role played by religion in white people's lived experiences of race, racism, and white class privilege in the United States te…Read more
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68Ethical 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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68Book 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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56The 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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51White Ignorance and Colonial OppressionIn Shannon Sullivan & Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, . pp. 153-172. 2007.
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49Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America By Jack TurnerTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 50 (1): 170. 2014.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America by Jack TurnerShannon SullivanJack Turner Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xv + 199pp, incl. index.Don’t let the size of this slim volume fool you: Awakening to Race is chock-full of fresh insights and original arguments regarding individualism and race in the American de…Read more
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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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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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40Pragmatist 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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33White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria WekkerphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (2): 363-367. 2017.
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31Intersections between pragmatist and continental feminismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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28Inheriting Racist Disparities in HealthCritical Philosophy of Race 1 (2): 190-218. 2013.This article examines how people of color can biologically inherit the deleterious effects of white racism. Drawing primarily on the field of epigenetics, I demonstrate how transgenerational racial disparities are in fact racist disparities that can be manifest physiologically, helping constitute the chemicals, hormones, cells, and fibers of the human body. Epigenetics can be used to demonstrate how white racism can have durable effects on the biological constitution of human beings that are not…Read more
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23Feminist interpretations of William James (edited book)The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2015.A collection of essays examining the writings of William James. Provides a reinterpretation of pragmatism to devise philosophical resources for pragmatist feminism that challenge sexism and male privilege"--Provided by publisher.
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19Community as a Political and Temporal Construct: A Response to Patricia Hill CollinsThe Pluralist 15 (1): 83-89. 2020.i am honored to have the opportunity to think with Patricia Hill Collins about community as a political construct. Collins has argued that, like concepts of family and love, community often has been considered to be part of a nonpolitical sphere, something personal and private even as it is not individualistic. As feminists have shown, however, the personal is political, and as Collins urges, an intersectional understanding of the political can and also should apply to the concept of community. …Read more
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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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