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Identity, Knowledge, and Toni Morrison's Beloved: Questions about Understanding Racism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Susan E. Babbitt
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Abstract

In discussing Drucilla Cornell's remarks about Toni Morrison's Beloved, I consider epistemological questions raised by the acquiring of understanding of racism, particularly the deep-rooted racism embodied in social norms and values. I suggest that questions about understanding racism are, in part, questions about personal and political identities and that questions about personal and political identities are often, importantly, epistemological questions.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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