Alterity is a concept with an extensive yet elusive history. Popularly conceived of as radical difference and Otherness, I identify alterity as the source of much of the virulent forms of racism, sexism, islamophobia, and other dichotomies in society that pit one group against another. Coming out of the tradition of critical qualitative inquiry, I offer a genealogy of the concept of alterity through various contexts and disciplines with a focus on its use in traditional Western philosophy. Within this tradition, the alteric relationship between the Self and the Other was typified by a preeminence bestowed upon the Self and an adversarial, totalizing posture taken toward the Other. Relying on a hermeneutic methodology, I theorize the development of alterity within this tradition as the root of the Eurocentric project of hegemony and subjugation that has culminated in and solidified White supremacy and that manifest today as Trump era articulations of racism and nativism in American society. Detailing the early twentieth century postmodern turn in Western philosophy which rehabilitated the Other from the tyranny of the Self, I use that history as a model for reclaiming the racial, cultural, and religious Others that continue to be marginalized throughout American society. Enlisting the notion of borderlands from border pedagogy, the ethics of care of Emmanuel Levinas, and the tenets of critical qualitative inquiry, I argue for a deliberate and focused project of activist research and critical pedagogy to not only rehabilitate and give voice to marginalized groups but to also deterritorialize the borderlands between the Self of White society and those who have been Othered by White society.

他性是一个具有广泛但难以捉摸的历史的概念。通常被认为是根本差异和他者性，我认为他异性是许多恶性形式的种族主义、性别歧视、伊斯兰恐惧症和社会中使一个群体与另一个群体对立的其他二分法的根源。出于批判性定性探究的传统，我通过各种背景和学科提供了他异性概念的谱系，重点是它在传统西方哲学中的应用。在这个传统中，自我与他者之间的改变关系以赋予自我的卓越地位和对他者采取的对抗性、总体化的姿态为代表。依靠解释学方法，我将这一传统中异性的发展理论化为以欧洲为中心的霸权和征服计划的根源，该计划最终导致并巩固了白人至上主义，并在今天表现为特朗普时代对美国社会种族主义和本土主义的表述。我详细描述了 20 世纪早期西方哲学的后现代转向，它使他者从自我的暴政中恢复过来，我用这段历史作为模型来恢复在整个美国社会中继续被边缘化的种族、文化和宗教他者。从边界教学法、伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯的关怀伦理学和批判性定性调查的原则中汲取边界概念，