Read more
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook that challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. The new edition includes updated evidence, descriptions, stories, and chapters throughout.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Invisibility of Whiteness
Chapter 2 Scientific Endeavors to Study Race: Race Is Not Rooted in Biology
Chapter 3 Race and the Social Construction of Whiteness
Chapter 4 White Supremacy and Other Forms of Everyday Racism
Chapter 5 Ways of Seeing Power and Privilege
Chapter 6 Socioeconomic Class and White Privilege
Chapter 7 (Not) Teaching Race
Chapter 8 (White) Workplaces
Chapter 9 The Race of Public Policy
Chapter 10 Looking Forward
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Jean Halley is a professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).Amy Eshleman published Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege on gender and heteronormativity in 2017. Halley’s Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, came out in 2019. Ron Nerio's and Halley's The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants comes out with Fordham University Press in 2022. Amy Eshleman is a professor of psychology and regularly teaches classes at Wagner College on race, class, gender, and sexuality, in which she shares with students her research on expressions of prejudice. In addition to co-authoring Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege with Jean Halley, she has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals including Women's Studies, Review of Black Political Economy, Learning Communities Research Practice, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology. She holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of Kansas. Ramya Vijaya is a professor of economics at Stockton University in New Jersey. Her research is in the area of labor market inequalities, globalization, and feminist political economy. She coauthored the book Indian Immigrant Women and Work: The American Experience, published in 2016.She has published multiple articles on gender, work, and structural economic inequalities in academics journals as well as news media outlets such as the Washington Post, The Conversation, and the Scroll.In. Vijaya holds a PhD in economics from American University.
Summary
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook for undergraduate students that challenges students to see race as everyone’s issue.
