{"id":40821,"date":"2015-04-11T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T23:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40821"},"modified":"2015-04-11T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T23:15:48","slug":"asian-american-woman-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40821","title":{"rendered":"Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Stone<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-04-06<\/p>\n

George Yancy<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Philosophy
\nDuquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Emily S. Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Philosophy
\nCalifornia State University, Fullerton<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week\u2019s conversation is with Emily S. Lee<\/a>, an associate professor of philosophy at the California State University, Fullerton. She is the editor of \u201cLiving Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race<\/a>.\u201d \u2014 George Yancy<\/em><\/p>\n

George Yancy<\/strong>: You work at the intersection of race and phenomenology<\/a> (the investigation of direct structures of experience). What got you interested in this area?<\/p>\n

Emily S. Lee<\/strong>: Well, I\u2019ve always been interested in how people can live in close proximity, share experiences, even within a family and yet draw very different conclusions from the experience. So when I began reading the French philosopher M. Merleau-Ponty\u2019s<\/a> \u201cPhenomenology of Perception<\/a>,\u201d I really appreciated his care and attention to how this phenomenon can occur. Because an experience is not directly drawn from the empirical circumstances; it is also structured by the accumulated history and aspirations of each of the subjects undergoing the experience, Merleau-Ponty\u2019s work helps to systematically understand how one can share an experience, and yet still take away different conclusions.<\/p>\n

It was with luck that while I was reading Merleau-Ponty\u2019s book, I was also reading the critical race theorist Patricia Williams\u2019s<\/a> book, \u201cThe Alchemy of Race and Rights<\/a>.\u201d I found some of her descriptions and analysis demonstrating the chasms of understanding among different \u201craces\u201d incredibly enlightening. I thought an explanation for many of the racial phenomena that Williams described in terms of the inexplicable dearth of understanding among various racialized subjects could be facilitated with the phenomenological framework…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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