“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are the object—is that they are not seen at all. Correspondingly, the “central metaphor” of W. E.… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is the self-conscious recognition of white ignorance (including its blackfaced manifestation in black consciousness itself). Du Bois prescribes a critical cognitive distancing from “a world which yields [the Negro] no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share
“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are… — Charles W. Mills Copy Share Image
