The implicit epistemology of White Fragility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan D Sokal (0000-0002-1891-0200, Department of Mathematics, University College London , Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT , UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 517-552 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jopedu/qhad025 |
| OpenAlex | W4367672406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 63 |
I extract, and then analyse critically, the epistemological ideas that are implicit in Robin DiAngelo's best-selling book White Fragility and her other writings. On what grounds, according to DiAngelo, can people know what they claim to know? And on what grounds does DiAngelo know what she claims to know
Epistemology · Fragility · Need to know · Sociology · White (mutation · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Philosophy
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White Identity Politics
Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy
Hiring Discrimination
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Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Political diversity will improve social psychological science
Knowledge and social imagery
The science question in feminism
Rationality and Relativism
Social Empiricism
The One Culture
What Does It Mean to Be White
Competition in the Promised Land
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination
Indiscriminate discrimination
Theory and Reality
Intentional Ignorance
White Fragility
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
My Class Didn't Trump My Race
Social Class and School Knowledge
Radical' Pedagogy Requires 'Conservative' Epistemology
Neighborhood selection and the social reproduction of concentrated racial inequality
Measuring White Fragility
The Use of Field Experiments for Studies of Employment Discrimination
American Holocaust
Ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions
The Lives and Values of Researchers
The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education
Great Is Their Sin
The Meeting of Knowledges
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
Pots, Kettles, and Interpretations of Blackness
Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence
An Empirical Assessment of Whiteness Theory
The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation
Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil
Why Is Black-White Residential Segregation So Persistent
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |