White Suffragist Dis/Entitlement: The &lt;em&gt;Revolution&lt;/em&gt; and the Rhetoric of Racism

McDaneld, Jen

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“…51 For example, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued that (white) educated women were more deserving of the vote than "ignorant" men, including many formerly enslaved people, working-class people and immigrants [93]. Intentionally drawing on racist stereotypes, she explained: "Think of Patrick and Sambo and Hans Yung Tung, who do not know the difference between a monarchy and a republic, who can not read the Declaration of Independence or Webster's spelling-book, making laws for Lucretia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, and Anna E. Dickinson [94]. "…”

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Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings

Blodgett-Ford

2021

Philosophies

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The phenomenon and ethics of “voting” will be explored in the context of human enhancements. “Voting” will be examined for enhanced humans with moderate and extreme enhancements. Existing patterns of discrimination in voting around the globe could continue substantially “as is” for those with moderate enhancements. For extreme enhancements, voting rights could be challenged if the very humanity of the enhanced was in doubt. Humans who were not enhanced could also be disenfranchised if certain enhancements become prevalent. Voting will be examined using a theory of engagement articulated by Professor Sophie Loidolt that emphasizes the importance of legitimization and justification by “facing the appeal of the other” to determine what is “right” from a phenomenological first-person perspective. Seeking inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948, voting rights and responsibilities will be re-framed from a foundational working hypothesis that all enhanced and non-enhanced humans should have a right to vote directly. Representative voting will be considered as an admittedly imperfect alternative or additional option. The framework in which voting occurs, as well as the processes, temporal cadence, and role of voting, requires the participation from as diverse a group of humans as possible. Voting rights delivered by fiat to enhanced or non-enhanced humans who were excluded from participation in the design and ratification of the governance structure is not legitimate. Applying and extending Loidolt’s framework, we must recognize the urgency that demands the impossible, with openness to that universality in progress (or universality to come) that keeps being constituted from the outside.

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“…93 In considering alternative visions, we can see "there were and are a multiplicity of ways of constituting our collective selves in common." 94…”

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Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings

Blodgett-Ford

2021

Philosophies

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“…3 To illustrate the stakes of this exclusion, consider as a representative example the alienation of Black women from the project of women's suffrage. This resulted from both the expression of racist attitudes by some key leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the perhaps more insidious willingness of decisionmakers in the movement to frame women's issues in ways that would capitulate to the racist attitudes of desired white supporters (NPR 2011;Fields-White 2011;McDaneld 2013;Brown 2018;Staples 2019). Another significant example is the alienation of Black women from the developing field of women's studies, as 3 I will focus here on race largely though the work by Black US American women as one example of this pattern of exclusion, but to consider this fully one would need to engage the potential of feminist philosophers to better engage racial differences beyond the black-white binary and to address normatively hierarchical differences not reducible to yet interrelated with race, including nationality, gender identity, sexuality, and ability.…”

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Ethical Openness in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

McAuliffe

2020

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This paper explores the problem of racial privilege in US American feminist thought. Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s analysis of ethics, particularly her ideas of epistemic discontinuity and teleopoietic reading, I argue that a specific kind of ethical openness can help feminist social-political philosophy better negotiate the legacy of white privilege. Spivak’s work calls for a reconsideration and reworking of the subject who theorizes. Her analysis of ethics suggests that racially privileged feminists must be able to confront their own complicity in order to engage in political critique less likely to recreate historical patterns of racial domination and exclusion.

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Feminism as Racist Backlash: How Racism Drove the Development of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Feminist Theory

Curry

2023

Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action

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White Suffragist Dis/Entitlement: The <em>Revolution</em> and the Rhetoric of Racism

Cited by 8 publications

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Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings

Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings

Ethical Openness in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Feminism as Racist Backlash: How Racism Drove the Development of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Feminist Theory

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