ABSTRACT
When we think about power and privilege in relation to racial inequalities and racial ideologies, usually what comes to mind, are the roles of economic classes, political institutions and movements, cultural trends, and historical conditions. This is well and good since after all, racial inequality and race as ideas are complex phenomena with a great number of causes and effects. But there is one fundamental source of racial inequality, in this case African American oppression, that tends to either be overlooked or dealt with in a piecemeal fashion; namely, the race politics of knowledge production.
