Racial Knowledge

Racial knowledge is the, "Production of social knowledge about the radicalized Other, than, establishes a library or archive of information, a set of guiding ideas and principles about Otherness" (150).

With this production of social knowledge brings about discourse, discourse meaning producing something else, creating knowledge about something, for example, a group of people, or a topic. Discourse produces these new ways of social knowledge, leading to racial knowledge.

The way Viola was treated was based on this Racial Knowledge of black individuals. They at this period of History were not seen as equal nor have the same privileges of whites, and they had certain rules to follow, for example, unable to sit on the main floor seating at a movie theater.

Goldberg, David Theo. 1993. Racist Culture: Philosophy and the politics of meaning, 148-175. New York: Blackwell.