White Self Criticality Beyond: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem? (Philosophy of Race) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498506739 ISBN 13: 9781498506731

Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2016

Synopsis

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.

About this title

About the Authors

George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yancy has published over 250 combined scholarly articles, chapters, and interviews that have appeared in professional journals, books, and at various news sites. Yancy is known for his numerous essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, and Truthout. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 25 books, including most recently Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future and In Sheep’s Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism (coedited with philosopher Bill Bywater. Yancy is editor of the Philosophy of Race Book Series at Bloomsbury.

Barbara Applebaum is professor in the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University.

Jessica Krim is associate professor, chair, and secondary education program director at Southern Illinois University.

Robin James is a popular music scholar and author of five books including Resilience & Melancholy (2015), The Future of Rock & Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (2023). She has published extensively in the scholarly and mainstream press, with bylines at Jezebel, The Guardian, LARB, and other publications. A former co-editor of The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Robin has given public lectures about her work at venues like the CTM Festival and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her day job is commissioning scholarly and trade books in music, media, and communication at Palgrave Macmillan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498506739
• ISBN 13: 9781498506731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: George Yancy