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Event: Woke Wednesdays Workshop
Starts: Wednesday 4/25/2018 11:30 AM
Ends: Wednesday 4/25/2018 01:00 PM
Location: 501 Rudder Tower
Presenters: Dr. Amir R Jaima
Hosted By: African American Professional Organization
Contact Information: aapo@tamu.edu
Description: Don't Talk to white People: on the epistemological and rhetorical limitations of conversations with white people for anti-racist purposes Productive dialogue with white people for anti-racist purposes is precluded by the political limits prescribed by the “principle of interest convergence,”(Bell 1980; Bell 1992) occluded by the epistemological condition of “white ignorance,”(Sullivan and Tuana 2007) and disincentivized by the psychological burdens of “racial battle fatigue”(Smith et al. 2011; Smith et al. 2016) borne by you and me, the Black would-be interlocutors. Nevertheless, much popular effort is spent—dare I say wasted—in attempts to talk white people out of their racism. Analogously, much of the scholarly research under the penumbra of Africana Philosophy implicitly directs its narratorial voice toward a white readership, ultimately contributing to our “derelictical” and “methodological” crises in African American Philosophy (Curry 2011). For reasons similar to the difficult




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Open to: Faculty Staff Grad Students TAMU Guest
Registration Starts: Friday 4/13/2018 1:00 AM
Registration Ends: Tuesday 4/24/2018 1:00 AM
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