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

Edited by George Yancy - Contributions by Rebecca Aanerud; Barbara Applebaum; Alison Bailey; Steve Garner; Robin James; Crista Lebens; Steve Martinot; Nancy McHugh; Bridget M. Newell; David S. Owen; Alexis Sartwell and Karen Teel

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 > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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