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Published
"What is White Ignorance?", The Philosophical Quarterly 71(4): 864-885. 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa073)
"Intersectionality Without Fragmentation," forthcoming at Ethics
In Preparation
"Explaining Oppression: An Argument Against Individualism" (Under Review)
"Obliviousness" (Under Review)
"Connecting Micro and Macro Levels of Analysis Within Intersectionality"
"How Is Oppression Structural? Let Me Count the Ways"
"Explaining Oppression With Social Structures"
Papers

My work is at the intersections of social philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of race and gender, and focuses on theorizing oppression from a critical theoretical perspective. I argue that causal explanations of oppression must be social structural, and develop a pluralistic conception of social structure that encompasses both institutions and ideology. An important part of this view is that insofar as individual beliefs, attitudes, or biases play a role in explaining oppression, it is only as constituents of social structure. I apply this social structural framework to the notion to oppressive ignorance, or ignorance that is both promoted by and helps sustain oppression.
Currently, I am working on developing an account of a particular form of oppressive ignorance that I call obliviousness, while also showing how my account of oppression and social structure can help us to answer longstanding questions about intersectionality.
Research
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