TY - JOUR
T1 - Expectations as property of white supremacy
T2 - the coloniality of ascriptive expectations within the racial contract
AU - Liou, Daniel D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - To celebrate and honor Charles Mills’ intellectual legacy in social science and political philosophy, this paper utilizes the racial contract as an analytical lens to both extend his work and reenvision the field of the sociology of expectations. In doing so, this paper draws on Mills’ idea of the epistemological contract to theorize the term expectations as a form of epistemological violence associated with coloniality. The contractarian perspective suggests that the appearances and realities of inclusion and exclusion in social institutions are co-constituted in defining the coloniality of being between the signatories and the subjugated and in forming the ascriptive expectational status quo. Through a historical and contemporary analysis of policies and practices in the United States, this paper calls for further inquiries and moral outrage concerning coloniality and the intersecting dimensions of structurally, relationally, and knowledgeably ascriptive expectations.
AB - To celebrate and honor Charles Mills’ intellectual legacy in social science and political philosophy, this paper utilizes the racial contract as an analytical lens to both extend his work and reenvision the field of the sociology of expectations. In doing so, this paper draws on Mills’ idea of the epistemological contract to theorize the term expectations as a form of epistemological violence associated with coloniality. The contractarian perspective suggests that the appearances and realities of inclusion and exclusion in social institutions are co-constituted in defining the coloniality of being between the signatories and the subjugated and in forming the ascriptive expectational status quo. Through a historical and contemporary analysis of policies and practices in the United States, this paper calls for further inquiries and moral outrage concerning coloniality and the intersecting dimensions of structurally, relationally, and knowledgeably ascriptive expectations.
KW - Ascriptive expectations
KW - Coloniality
KW - Educational racial contract
KW - Settled expectations
KW - Sociology of expectations
KW - Whiteness
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U2 - 10.1080/13613324.2023.2207982
DO - 10.1080/13613324.2023.2207982
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158828989
SN - 1361-3324
VL - 26
SP - 478
EP - 496
JO - Race Ethnicity and Education
JF - Race Ethnicity and Education
IS - 4
ER -