dc.creator | Pitts, Andrea J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T17:23:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-20 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07-20 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07132015-152820 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12974 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this project, I combine theoretical resources from metaethics and philosophy of language with contemporary issues in critical philosophy of race. Drawing from these literatures, I examine the nature of racial norms by developing a non-ideal, situated, and intersectional approach to second-personhood. Second-personhood, as I propose in the first half of the dissertation, serves two explanatory functions with respect to the nature of racial norms. First, second-personhood highlights how manifestations of moral and political agency are embedded in interdependent forms of ‘I-you’ and ‘we-you’ relationships. Second, with respect to language, second-personhood provides an account of how speech acts, when understood as a subset of embodied action, come to bear normative force. These features of second-personhood then undergird the three distinct sites of analysis that I examine in the latter half of the dissertation. There, I propose that we can examine collective, interpersonal, and personal levels of racial discourse to see the functioning of racial norms through second-personhood. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Frantz Fanon | |
dc.subject | Speech Act Theory | |
dc.subject | Critical Philosophy of Race | |
dc.subject | Gloria Anzaldúa | |
dc.subject | Second-personhood | |
dc.title | Racial Interpellation and Second-personhood: Understanding the Normative Dynamics of Race Talk | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dr. Lisa Guenther | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dr. Kelly Oliver | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dr. Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dr. Linda Martín Alcoff | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2015-07-20 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2015-07-20 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Dr. José Medina | |