{"product_id":"knowing-otherwise-race-gender-and-implicit-understanding-9780271037646","title":"Knowing Otherwise: Race  Gender  and Implicit Understanding","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrejudice is often not a conscious attitude: because of ingrained habits in relating to the world  one may act in prejudiced ways toward others without explicitly understanding the meaning of ones actions. Similarly  one may know how to do certain things  like ride a bicycle  without being able to articulate in words what that knowledge is. These are examples of what Alexis Shotwell discusses in Knowing Otherwise as phenomena of implicit understanding. Presenting a systematic analysis of this concept  she highlights how this kind of understanding may be used to ground positive political and social change  such as combating racism in its less overt and more deep-rooted forms. Shotwell begins by distinguishing four basic types of implicit understanding: nonpropositional  skill-based  or practical knowledge; embodied knowledge; potentially propositional knowledge; and affective knowledge. She then develops the notion of a racialized and gendered common sense  drawing on Gramsci and critical race theorists  and clarifies the idea of embodied knowledge by showing how it operates in the realm of aesthetics. She also examines the role that both negative affects  like shame  and positive affects  like sympathy  can play in moving us away from racism and toward political solidarity and social justice. Finally  Shotwell looks at the politicized experience of ones body in feminist and transgender theories of liberation in order to elucidate the role of situated sensuous knowledge in bringing about social change and political transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665923104821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271037644","price":42.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271037646.jpg?v=1782414318","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/knowing-otherwise-race-gender-and-implicit-understanding-9780271037646","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}