Race and the Senses: Toward Articulating the Sensory Apparatus of Race

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2018-01-04 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.6.1.0082

Sachi Sekimoto

引用次数: 13

Abstract

Abstract:This article provides a preliminary exploration into the relationship between the bodily senses and race. Seeking insight into what Merleau-Ponty called a body-subject—a lived, knowing body that is aware and reflective of its perceptual experience and actively participates in the construction of reality—it explores the role of the bodily senses in constituting the ideological universe of race. Approaching the body as an anchor of sensory apparatus that is cultivated to confirm and uphold the social and ideological existence of race, it explores how we cultivate, activate, and materialize the historically specific bodies that actively perceive race as difference and participate in the social reality organized by race. Examples of colorblind ideology and racialized pain are used to substantiate the claim that our sensory participation in reality is integral to maintaining what we call race.

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种族与感官:对种族感觉器官的阐释

摘要:本文对身体感官与种族的关系进行了初步探讨。为了深入了解梅洛-庞蒂所说的身体主体——一个活生生的、有知识的身体，它意识到并反映了它的感知经验，并积极参与了现实的建构——它探索了身体感官在构成种族意识形态世界中的作用。它将身体作为一种感官装置的锚，被培养来确认和维护种族的社会和意识形态存在，探索我们如何培养、激活和物化历史上特定的身体，这些身体积极地将种族视为差异，并参与由种族组织的社会现实。色盲意识形态和种族化痛苦的例子被用来证实这样一种说法，即我们对现实的感官参与是维持我们所谓的种族的必要条件。

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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.