Facing up to Ignorance and Privilege

Philosophy of Whiteness as Public Intellectualism

Bibliographic Data

ID4767352
AuthorsTerrance Macmullan (Eastern Washington University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume10
Issue9
Pages646-660
Publication date2015-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12238
OpenAlexW2160952498
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

This article offers an overview on current trends and future research possibilities within the philosophy of whiteness. It examines the sub-field of the philosophy of whiteness within the context of the larger field of the philosophy of race in order to assess the viability and relevance of this field of study. Some of the topics on whiteness examined in the article include the problems of white ignorance and privilege, the invisibility of white supremacist racism to white people, and how all these problems can be understood either as examples of epistemologies of ignorance or as unexamined habits in the sense used by pragmatist philosophy. The article argues that the current state of this field calls for a greater emphasis on public intellectualism on whiteness that would incorporate many ideas that are widely accepted by critical race scholars into the under-informed public discourse on race and whiteness. It also argues that the increasing prevalence of negative liberty movements in the United States should be examined in light of established research on the philosophy of whiteness

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Ignorance · Intellectualism · Invisibility · Political science · Pragmatism · Privilege (computing · Sociology · White (mutation · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society

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