Being Black and Woman in a Racist and Sexist Society: Locating an Existential Standpoint Philosophy in Mamphela Ramphele’s Autobiography

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Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.11.2.0355

Zinhle Manzini

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Abstract:This article considers Anika Mann’s (aka Anika Simpson) arguments on race and feminist standpoint theory. Its intervention is to take up Mann’s claim that “being-in-situation is the ontological condition for achieving a standpoint.” Mann’s analysis is reformulated as an existential standpoint philosophy, rooted in experience, and aimed at the concrete, freedom, praxis, and achievement. The article uses the existential standpoint framework as a foundation to take up Mamphela Ramphele’s initial autobiography, Mamphela Ramphele: A Life (1995) to critically reflect on what the actions of nonsubservient Blackwomen reveal about the lived experience of being Black and a woman under Apartheid South Africa. It argues that Ramphele’s philosophical approach to unveiling “Apartheid racism as a system” integrates a standpoint theory with existential phenomenology.

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作为种族主义和性别歧视社会中的黑人和女性:曼菲拉·兰菲尔自传中的存在主义立场哲学定位

摘要：本文论述了安妮卡·曼（又名安妮卡·辛普森）关于种族和女权主义立场理论的论点。它的介入是为了接受曼的主张，即“处于情境中是实现立场的本体论条件”。曼的分析被重新表述为一种存在的立场哲学，植根于经验，旨在实现具体、自由、实践和成就。这篇文章以存在主义的立场框架为基础，引用了曼菲拉·拉姆菲勒最初的自传《曼菲拉·兰菲勒：一种生活》（1995），批判性地反思了非继承黑人女性的行为揭示了在种族隔离的南非，身为黑人和女性的生活经历。它认为，拉姆费尔揭示“种族隔离种族主义作为一个系统”的哲学方法将立场理论与存在主义现象学相结合。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.