Pedagogy Apr 2002

The Race to Truth: Disarticulating Critical Thinking from Whiteliness

Catherine Fox

Abstract

Leading intellectuals tend to assume responsibility for imagining alternatives and do so within a set of discourses and institutions burdened genealogically by multifaceted complicities with power that make them dangerous to people. As agencies of these discourses that greatly affect the lives of people one might say leading intellectuals are a tool of oppression and most so precisely when they arrogate the right and power to judge and imagine efficacious alternatives—a process that we might suspect, sustains leading intellectuals at the expense of others. —Paul Bove (1986: 227)

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2002-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2-2-197
Open Access
Closed
Topics
race and writing

Citation Context

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