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

    Publication Date: Feb 24, 2004
    List Price: $73.99
    Format: Paperback, 296 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780415966160
    Imprint: Routledge
    Publisher: Routledge
    Parent Company: Taylor & Francis

    Paperback Description:

    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.