Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1998
Abstract
I address the problem of how to locate “traitorous” subjects, or those who belong to dominant groups yet resist the usual assumptions and practices of those groups. I argue that Sandra Harding’s description of traitors us insiders, who “become marginal” is misleading. Crafting a distinction between “privilege-cognizant” and “privilege-evasive” white scripts, I offer an alternative account of race traitors as privilege-cognizant whites who refuse to animate expected whitely scripts, and who are unfaithful to worldviews whites are expected to hold.
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Alison, "Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character" (1998). Faculty Publications - Philosophy. 5.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpphil/5
Comments
This article was originally published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 13, no. 3 (1998): 27-42. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01368.x