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Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism

Shannon Sullivan

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Description:Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as “white middle-class goodness.” She critiques this orientation as being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege.Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one’s lack of racism:* The denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism* The demonization of antebellum slaveholders* An emphasis on colorblindness, especially in the context of white childrearing* The cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayalTo move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.Shannon Sullivan is Head of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Penn State University. She is the author and editor of many books, including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (coedited with Nancy Tuana), also published by SUNY Press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. To get started finding Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: SUNY Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1438451695

Description: Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as “white middle-class goodness.” She critiques this orientation as being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege.Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one’s lack of racism:* The denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism* The demonization of antebellum slaveholders* An emphasis on colorblindness, especially in the context of white childrearing* The cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayalTo move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.Shannon Sullivan is Head of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Penn State University. She is the author and editor of many books, including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (coedited with Nancy Tuana), also published by SUNY Press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. To get started finding Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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