The impairment of empathy in goodwill whites for African Americans

What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 65-86

  Jones, Janine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203499719     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. See Lewis Gordon, Her Majesty's Children (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), p. 29.
2. Sharon Rush, Living across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns about Race (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), p. 82.
3. Thomas Nagel, " What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Philosophical Review Vol. 83, No. 4. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974), pp. 435-50.
4. I have argued for this view in an unpublished paper, " No Body No Mind." We find a similar view in Fred Dretske's Naturalizing the Mind (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995) p. 95.
5. Paul Thagard and Allison Barnes, " Empathy and Analogy," Canadian Philosophical Review 36: 705-20. I used the online version, which can be retrieved at http://cogsci. uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/Empathy.html. References to pages numbers are in accordance with the online version (p. 3, emphasis mine).
6. Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, How Monkeys See the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
7. Thagard and Barnes, " Empathy and Analogy," p. 11.
8. Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001), p. 129.
9. Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 9.
10. Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (New York: Oxford University Press), 447.
11. Keith Oatley, Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
12. Barnes and Thagard, " Empathy and Analogy," p. 5.
13. Barnes and Thagard, " Empathy and Analogy," p. 8.
14. Frontline PBS Video, " L.A. is Burning: Five Reports from a Divided City" (documentary consortium of public television stations: KCTS Seattle, WGBH Boston, WNET New York, WPBT Miami,WTVS Detroit, 1992).
15. Feagin, Hernán, and Batur, White Racism, p. 142.
16. Barnes and Thagard, " Empathy and Analogy," p. 10. Emphasis mine.
17. Feagin, Hernán, and Batur, White Racism, p. 111.
18. Feagin, Vera, and Batur, White Racism, p. 132.
19. Martha Nussbaum, " Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Genealogy of Love," Ethics I 98, no. 2 (January 1988): 225-54.