Shannon Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
W.E.B. Du Bois as a Critical Anthropologist of Race
Drawing on the recent recognition of Du Bois by contemporary anthropologists, this article highlights the anthropological work that Du Bois conducted on Black people and communities in Philadelphia and Atlanta. It also argues that when reading Du Bois with an eye for his anthropological pragmatism, contemporary scholars should not stop at reading Du Bois’ work on Black people. We also should read his analyses of whiteness and white people as comp…
Difficulties of Ethical Life
This book brings the powerful insights of Continental philosophy to bear on some of the most challenging difficulties of ethical life. Currently philosophy is being radically transformed by questions of how to live well. What does such a way of life mean? How are we to understand the meaning of ethicality? What are the obstacles to ethical living? And should we assume that an ethical life is a "better" life? The movement of history and the develo…
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives
White Priority
This article introduces the concept of white priority and challenges the false universalism built into the concept of white privilege. Proceeding from the perspective of “trash crit,” the article analyzes white domination from the perspective of poor and working class white people. While racial advantages exist for poor and working class white people, the concept of white privilege does not capture them well. The concept of white priority—the sen…
Smadditizin' Across the Years: Race and Class in the Work of Charles Mills
This article analyzes the changing relationship of race and class in the work of Charles Mills. Mills tells the story of his career by tracing an arc “from class to race,” which includes “an evolution of both focus and approach” that shifts the terms of his work “from red to black.” The article complicates this story by reading Mills's evolution through an intersectional lens. An intersectional approach to Mills's work allows a better appreciatio…
Becoming a citizen: Habits of national belonging in the United States
Grounded in feminist phenomenology in partnership with everyday citizenship research, this paper examines the everyday, lived experience of citizenship. Arguing that becoming a citizen involves the development of habits of citizenship, I examine felt habits of national belonging especially in the lives of children. How do children learn habits of citizenship that enable and even require citizens to distinguish themselves from those with ambiguous…
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
The Hearts and Guts of White People: Ethics, Ignorance, and the Physiology of White Racism
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 biologi…
Inheriting Racist Disparities in Health
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 bi…
White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto Rico
Weighing the Duty to Inform a Patient of Possible Future Illness
to see Dr. Pass, a specialist in sleep disorders, because of his history of violent behavior during sleep. Although Mr. Watts didn't have any complaints, his wife was extremely frightened by the episodes of shouting, kicking, and punching that would occur while her husband was sleeping, usually in the early morning hours. After conducting a thorough history and physical exam, Dr. Pass was certain that the diagnosis was idiopathic REM sleep behavi…
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics Shannon Sullivan I am truly honored to have Charles Mills, Paul Taylor, and Cynthia Willett comment on my recent book Revealing Whiteness. Their careful readings and thoughtful analyses have pushed me to think further about my work on whiteness in particular and critical philosophy of race more broadly. I will not be able to do full justice to their contributions here, but I hope to use their rich commen…
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Introduction: Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance
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Revealing whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege
Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical space
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 psyc…
Salience of Emotional Intelligence as a Core Characteristic of Being a Counselor
The authors investigated the association between emotional intelligence and counseling self-efficacy. Participants were 140 counseling students and practicing counselors who completed the Emotional Judgment Inventory and the Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory. Emotional intelligence differentiated counselors from noncounselors (Mdn d = .6650) but provided mixed results in differentiating counseling students and counselors. Moreover, the emotional…
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
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 e…
Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
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.
Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
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 p…
Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
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 p…
Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
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
Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
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 i…
Inheriting Racist Disparities in Health
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 bi…
Farmers’ attitudes about farming and the environment: A survey of conventional and organic farmers
Introduction: Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
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
The Hearts and Guts of White People: Ethics, Ignorance, and the Physiology of White Racism
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 biologi…
Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
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 i…
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Psychological Health
A questionnaire was developed to measure the level of satisfaction in people of the five basic needs described by Maslow: physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. For 166 undergraduates the level of basic needs satisfaction was related, as predicted by Maslow, to scores on measures of neuroticism and belief in an internal locus of control
Salience of Emotional Intelligence as a Core Characteristic of Being a Counselor
The authors investigated the association between emotional intelligence and counseling self-efficacy. Participants were 140 counseling students and practicing counselors who completed the Emotional Judgment Inventory and the Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory. Emotional intelligence differentiated counselors from noncounselors (Mdn d = .6650) but provided mixed results in differentiating counseling students and counselors. Moreover, the emotional…
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
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 e…
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics Shannon Sullivan I am truly honored to have Charles Mills, Paul Taylor, and Cynthia Willett comment on my recent book Revealing Whiteness. Their careful readings and thoughtful analyses have pushed me to think further about my work on whiteness in particular and critical philosophy of race more broadly. I will not be able to do full justice to their contributions here, but I hope to use their rich commen…
Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical space
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 psyc…
Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Becoming a citizen: Habits of national belonging in the United States
Grounded in feminist phenomenology in partnership with everyday citizenship research, this paper examines the everyday, lived experience of citizenship. Arguing that becoming a citizen involves the development of habits of citizenship, I examine felt habits of national belonging especially in the lives of children. How do children learn habits of citizenship that enable and even require citizens to distinguish themselves from those with ambiguous…
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
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 p…
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Psychological Health
A questionnaire was developed to measure the level of satisfaction in people of the five basic needs described by Maslow: physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. For 166 undergraduates the level of basic needs satisfaction was related, as predicted by Maslow, to scores on measures of neuroticism and belief in an internal locus of control
Farmers’ attitudes about farming and the environment: A survey of conventional and organic farmers
Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
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 i…
Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
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.
Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
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 p…
Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia Stoller
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 p…
Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
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
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins
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 e…
Ethical slippages, shattered horizons, and the zebra striping of the unconscious: Fanon on social, bodily, and psychical space
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 psyc…
Salience of Emotional Intelligence as a Core Characteristic of Being a Counselor
The authors investigated the association between emotional intelligence and counseling self-efficacy. Participants were 140 counseling students and practicing counselors who completed the Emotional Judgment Inventory and the Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory. Emotional intelligence differentiated counselors from noncounselors (Mdn d = .6650) but provided mixed results in differentiating counseling students and counselors. Moreover, the emotional…
Introduction: Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Revealing whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Weighing the Duty to Inform a Patient of Possible Future Illness
to see Dr. Pass, a specialist in sleep disorders, because of his history of violent behavior during sleep. Although Mr. Watts didn't have any complaints, his wife was extremely frightened by the episodes of shouting, kicking, and punching that would occur while her husband was sleeping, usually in the early morning hours. After conducting a thorough history and physical exam, Dr. Pass was certain that the diagnosis was idiopathic REM sleep behavi…
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics
On Revealing Whiteness: A Reply to Critics Shannon Sullivan I am truly honored to have Charles Mills, Paul Taylor, and Cynthia Willett comment on my recent book Revealing Whiteness. Their careful readings and thoughtful analyses have pushed me to think further about my work on whiteness in particular and critical philosophy of race more broadly. I will not be able to do full justice to their contributions here, but I hope to use their rich commen…
White Ignorance and Colonial Oppression: Or, Why I Know So Little about Puerto Rico
Inheriting Racist Disparities in Health
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 bi…
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
The Hearts and Guts of White People: Ethics, Ignorance, and the Physiology of White Racism
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 biologi…
White Priority
This article introduces the concept of white priority and challenges the false universalism built into the concept of white privilege. Proceeding from the perspective of “trash crit,” the article analyzes white domination from the perspective of poor and working class white people. While racial advantages exist for poor and working class white people, the concept of white privilege does not capture them well. The concept of white priority—the sen…
Smadditizin' Across the Years: Race and Class in the Work of Charles Mills
This article analyzes the changing relationship of race and class in the work of Charles Mills. Mills tells the story of his career by tracing an arc “from class to race,” which includes “an evolution of both focus and approach” that shifts the terms of his work “from red to black.” The article complicates this story by reading Mills's evolution through an intersectional lens. An intersectional approach to Mills's work allows a better appreciatio…
Becoming a citizen: Habits of national belonging in the United States
Grounded in feminist phenomenology in partnership with everyday citizenship research, this paper examines the everyday, lived experience of citizenship. Arguing that becoming a citizen involves the development of habits of citizenship, I examine felt habits of national belonging especially in the lives of children. How do children learn habits of citizenship that enable and even require citizens to distinguish themselves from those with ambiguous…
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives
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