This paper explores the conscious visual experience of seeing race. In everyday occurrences, racialized seeing involves the capacity for a subject to simply “see” that someone she encounters belongs to a racial category. I bridge research in analytic philosophy of perception and accounts from phenomenologists and critical race theorists on the lived experience of racialized seeing. I contend that we should not trust our visual experiences of racialized seeing because they provide, at best, incomplete information on a target’s racial identity. I make a case for a version of perceptual learning that I think both captures actual experiences of racialized seeing and is empirically plausible. Finally, I follow work of critical race theorists in suggesting that normative constraints surrounding racial identity and privilege are built into our experiences of racialized seeing. Both types of racialized seeing are subject to social norms and practices and, thus, aid in perpetuating racial hierarchies.

本文探讨了观看种族的有意识的视觉体验。在日常生活中，种族化的观看涉及主体简单地“看到”她遇到的某人属于种族类别的能力。我将现象学家和批判种族理论家对感知分析哲学的研究与种族化观看的生活经验联系起来。我认为我们不应该相信我们的种族化视觉体验，因为它们充其量只能提供有关目标种族身份的不完整信息。我为一种我认为既能捕捉到种族化视觉的实际经验又在经验上合理的感知学习版本提出了一个案例。最后，我遵循批判种族理论家的工作，他们认为围绕种族身份和特权的规范约束已被纳入我们的种族化观看体验中。两种类型的种族化观看都受社会规范和实践的约束，因此，