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

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Imprint: Routledge (Feb 24, 2004)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415966160

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

    In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like takes a unique approach to the subject by collecting the ideas of African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issues 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 central issue of contemporary society.

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