White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility - Transforming Collective Harm Beyond the Punishment Paradigm

White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Contradictions and Possibilities of White Ignorance
Chapter 1. White Ignorance is Structural
Chapter 2. Declarations and Absolutions: Moral Paradoxes of White Ignorance
Chapter 3. Punitive Whiteness: Affective Economies of White Guilt and Shame
Chapter 4. Complicit Responsibility and Transformative Whiteness
Conclusion: Against White Success
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Eva Boodman

Summary

White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Boodman
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793639035
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-903-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies