Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racial Cognition
Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racial Cognition
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种族意识形态还是种族无知？
DOI：
10.1177/0735275120926197
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Jennifer C. Mueller
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作者：
Jennifer C. Mueller
本文以批判种族理论和白人无知的哲学建构为基础，提出了一种以过程为中心的种族无知理论（TRI），将种族无知作为种族化社会系统的核心维度。TRI包含五个原则：无知认识论、作为目的的无知技术、企业白色代理、实践中心性和利益趋同。TRI的原则解释了种族无知是如何强化白人统治的，关注白人逃避知识和抵抗的机制，这些机制促进了种族繁殖——在日常生活中，通过制度，在更广泛的社会中。我通过与现存的种族认知理论——色盲理论（CBT）的比较来说明TRI的优点。我认为TRI通过从种族意识形态转向种族无知，从时代定义的结构转向正在进行的历史进程来产生回报；并展示了TRI解释和预测主导逻辑变化的独特能力，支持更多的战略抵抗。
Directing attention to racial ignorance as a core dimension of racialized social systems, this article advances a process-focused Theory of Racial Ignorance (TRI), grounded in Critical Race Theory and the philosophical construct white ignorance. TRI embodies five tenets—epistemology of ignorance, ignorance as ends-based technology, corporate white agency, centrality of praxis, and interest convergence. TRI’s tenets explain how racial ignorance reinforces white domination, attending to mechanisms of white knowledge evasion and resistance that facilitate racial reproduction—in everyday life, through institutions, and across societies more broadly. I illustrate TRI’s assets by comparison to an extant theory of racial cognition—color-blind theory (CBT). I argue TRI generates returns by shifting from racial ideology to racial ignorance, and from era-defined structures to ongoing historical processes; and demonstrate TRI’s unique capacity to explain and predict changes in dominant logics, supporting more strategic resistance.