Winner of the 2016 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Building on her book
Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as ‘white middle-class goodness, ‘ an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one’s lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness—especially in the context of white childrearing—and the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Good White Liberals
1. Dumping on White Trash: Etiquette, Abjection, and Radical Inclusion
2. Demonizing White Ancestors: Unconscious Histories and Racial Responsibilities
3. The Dis-ease of Color Blindness: Racial Absences and Invisibilities in the Reproduction of Whiteness
4. The Dangers of White Guilt, Shame, and Betrayal: Toward White Self-Love
Conclusion: Struggles over Love
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Shannon Sullivan is Head of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Penn State University. She is the author and editor of many books, including
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (coedited with Nancy Tuana), also published by SUNY Press.
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