White Self Criticality Beyond

George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question's implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion of the "Black problem" narrative challenges contemporary rhetoric of a color-evasive world in a critically engaging and persuasive study.

List of contents

Introduction: Un-sutured, George Yancy
Chapter 1: Flipping the Script...and Still a Problem: Staying in the Anxiety of Being a Problem, Barbara Applebaum
Chapter 2: Feeling White, Feeling Good: "Antiracist" White Sensibilities, Karen Teel
Chapter 3: 'White Talk' As a Barrier to Understanding the Problem with Whiteness, Alison Bailey
Chapter 4: Un-forgetting as a Collective Tactic, Alexis Shotwell
Chapter 5: "Don't make a labor of it": Relationality and the Problem of Whiteness, Crista Lebens
Chapter 6: "You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me": The willed Ignorance and Wishful Innocence of White America, Robert Jensen
Chapter 7: Humility and Whiteness: "How did I look without seeing, hear without listening?", Rebecca Aanerud
Chapter 8: I Speak for My People: A Racial Manifesto, Crispin Sartwell
Chapter 9: Being a White Problem and Feeling It, Bridget M. Newell
Chapter 10: Keeping the Strange Unfamiliar: The Racial Privilege of Dismantling Whiteness, Nancy McHugh
Chapter 11: Cornered by Whiteness: On Being a White Problem, David S. Owen
Chapter 12: Whiteness, Democracy, and the Hegemonic Mind, Steve Martinot
Chapter 13: Am I the Small Axe or the Big Tree?, Steve Garner
Chapter 14: Contort Yourself: Music, Whiteness, and the Politics of Disorientation, Robin James

About the author

George Yancy is professor of philosophy at Duquesne University He has authored, edited, and coedited seventeen books.

Summary

George Yancy gathers white scholarship that dwells on the experience of whiteness as a problem without sidestepping the question’s implications for Black people or people of color. This unprecedented reversion of the “Black problem” narrative challenges contemporary rhetoric of a color-evasive world in a critically engaging and persuasive study.

Product details

• Assisted by: George Yancy (Editor), Yancy George (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2016
• EAN: 9781498506731
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0673-1
• Series: Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General