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

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ISBN 10: 0415966167 ISBN 13: 9780415966160

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

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What White Looks Like 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? Full description

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"Not only are these essays provocative, but they are illuminating and useful both to scholars and to neophytes. The anthology as a whole deserves an unqualified recommendation for all interested in this matter."  -L. Sebastian Purcell, Boston College

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415966167
• ISBN 13: 9780415966160
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Yancy George