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Knowing Otherwise:

Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
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Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part 1: Mapping Implicit Understanding

1. Theories of Implicit Understanding

2. Racialized Common Sense

3. An Aesthetics of Sensuousness

Part 2: Navigating Transformations

4. Negative Affect and Whiteness

5. Enacting Solidarity

6. A Knowing That Resided in My Bones

References

Index


“Alexis Shotwell’s book presents a complex account of the workings of our minds that are largely or even completely outside our awareness.”

—Anne Jaap Jacobson, Philosophical Review

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