I Understand That I Will Never Understand
White Ignorance, Anti-Racism, and the Right to Opacity
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2649385 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Eyo Ewara (0000-0001-5450-0244, Loyola University Chicago, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 12 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 292-314 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Critical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692 |
| Editorial | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/critphilrace.12.2.0292 |
| OpenAlex | W4400486956 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 4 |
This article offers a philosophical exploration of, and critical engagement with, the antiracist slogan "I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand." Drawing on Charles Mills's discussions of white ignorance and Édouard Glissant's conception of the "right to opacity," it first offers several interpretations and philosophical reconstructions of the claim that white allies "understand that they will never understand," reading this as potentially articulating either an epistemic failure or a kind of ethical self-limitation. It then draws on the work of Saidiya Hartman to offer a caution about the affirmation and naturalization of this delimited understanding as its ambiguity threatens to reinvoke and re-entrench certain racist conceptions already present within an antiblack context
Epistemology · Ignorance · Opacity · Physics · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Genetics
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |