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Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

Yancy, George

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PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1439908540
ISBN13: 9781439908549
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: May 6 2012
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.93 Depth: 7.42
Language: English

Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness.

He considers whiteness within the context of racial embodiment, film, pedagogy, colonialism, its danger, and its position within the work of specific writers. Identifying the embedded and opaque ways white power and privilege operate, Yancy argues that the Black countergaze can function as a gift to whites in terms of seeing their own whiteness more effectively.

Throughout Look, a White! Yancy pays special attention to the impact of whiteness on individuals, as well as on how the structures of whiteness limit the capacity of social actors to completely untangle the way whiteness operates, thus preventing the erasure of racism in social life.

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