PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ursula K. Le Guin, Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
4 Mar 2018
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Loving blackness not seen as political stand in white supremacist culture. Oppositional culture necessary to create conditions for loving blackness* *by loving blackness she doesn"t mean that black people should love their blackness she"s asking why we don"t all love blackness. Theologian james cone: oppose white supremacy by loving blackness. White supremacy as an epistemological standpoint by which (people) come to know the world. We see the world through the standpoint of whiteness. Cones significant contribution is the claim that white supremacy is undermine if people would learn to love blackness. It obscures privilege solidarity does not need to be grounded in black experience. We don"t need to share experience is to share understanding. She discusses the distinction between having prejudicial feelings, and institutionalized white supremacy. There are non-black people who have divested themselves of racism and can love blackness w/o being cultural tourists. Black people who love blackness are often punished.
