Bierria, “Structural Racism Within Reason,” American Philosophical Quarterly 60:4 (2023)

Alisa Bierria

In this article, Alisa Bierria engages “the politics of intention to explore how structural racism structures the production of meaning and the practice of reason. Building on Maria Lugones’s analysis of intention formation as a form of practical reasoning, Bierria explores the reasoning at work during the 2011 Stand Your Ground (SYG) hearing of black survivors of domestic violence, Marissa Alexander, to contend that structural racism—in this case, both intimate personal violence and intimate state violence against black women—enacts race/gender domination through projecting constructed intentions onto black women as a strategy to rationalize punishing black women.”

Alisa Bierria
American Philosophical Quarterly (2023) 60 (4): 355–368.
https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.4.04