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August 2 - December 4, 2023
It’s time to change the discussion.
The word “epistemology� refers to the study of knowledge and its formation, so an epistemology of ignorance would involve creating “knowledge� based on . . . a profound lack of knowledge or stupidity. Using fancy academic language, Mills is basically saying that whites� ideas “about race� are fundamentally based on misrepresentations and distortions of social reality, but their “not knowing,� their ignorance, gets routinely repackaged as credible, authoritative “knowledge,� even as “science.�15 But racial ignorance is not restricted to white folks, unfortunately.
