Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229219 |
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| Authors | Kate Rennebohm (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-226 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/722383 |
| OpenAlex | W4308984681 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article draws on the thought of Sylvia Wynter to argue that the development of frameworks of race in the early modern period played an essential, if as yet unconsidered, role in the development of modern skepticism. In formulating this history—and taking Stanley Cavell’s conceptualization of skepticism as an important point of reference—this article positions skepticism as both a historical and ongoing nexus for practices and experiences of racialization. Responding to this, I propose a variant of skepticism that I term enforced skepticism, explored here through a reading of Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017). This is a form of skeptical experience that is born not from epistemological doubt but from the violent foreclosures of access to self-expression and a livable world
Conceptualization · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Nexus (standard · Political science · Race (biology · Racialization · Reading (process · Skepticism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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