What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

ISBN-13: 9780415966153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 296 str.

George Yancy

Opis

In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. What does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience? In this volume, Robert Birt asks if whites can 'live whiteness authentically'. Janine Jones examines what it means to be a goodwill white. Joy James tells of beating her 'addiction' to white supremacy, while Arnold Farr writes on making whiteness visible in Western philosophy. What White Looks Like brings a badly needed critique and philosophically sophisticated perspective to a central issue of contemporary society.

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness: George Yancy1. Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness: Charles W. Mills 2. The Bad Faith of Whiteness: Robert E. Birt3. The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans: Janine Jones 4. Delegitimizing the Normativity of Whiteness: A Critical Africana Philosophical Study of the Metaphoricity of Whiteness: Clevis Headley 5. A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading Of Whiteness: The Production Of The Black Body/Self And The Racial Deformation Of Pecola Breedlove In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye:George Yancy 6. Whiteness Visible: Enlightenment Racism and the Structure of Racialized Consciousness: Arnold Farr 7. Rehabilitate Racial Whiteness?:Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. 8. Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness: Lewis R. Gordon 9. Whiteness and Africana Phenomenology: Paget Henry10. On the Nature of Whiteness and the Ontology of Race: Toward a Dialectical Materialist Analysis: John H. McClendon III 11. Silence and Sympathy: Dewey's Whiteness: Paul C. Taylor 12. Whiteness and Feminism: Déjá vu Discourses, What's Next?: Blanche Radford Curry 13. Mainlining (& Kicking) White Supremacy (WS): Joy James

O autorze

George Yancy holds the McCracken Fellowship in Africaana Studies at New York University. He has edited three previous books, including African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (Routledge, 1998), Cornel West: A Critical Reader (2001), and The Philosophical i: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy (2002).