Ignorância Branca - White Ignorance (Translation to Portuguese)
Griot 1 (17):413-438 (2018)
Abstract
In this paper, Charles Mills discusses what he calls “white ignorance”, developing one of the main
themes of his 1997 book, The Racial Contract. His discussion is concerned with the idea of a cognitive
disadvantage based on membership in a social group, which is not strange to the radical philosophical
tradition, and that has been explored with more vigor in the recent Social Epistemology, in debates
about epistemic injustices, silencing, willful ignorance, cognitive biases, epistemological standpoints,
etc. Mills argues for an “Epistemology of the white ignorance”, a racially and socially situated
epistemology, which contraposes itself, in a great extent, to the individualistic tendencies of the
traditional epistemological work, while conserving the interests in objectivity and truth of this work.
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