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Feminist Philosophical Reflections
Whiteness
Feminist Philosophical Reflections
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Description
Written in an engaging narrative style, this book contains reflections on the meanings of whiteness in racist contexts. By considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture, these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false naturalistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender. Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here discuss how one learns to be a good white Southern woman, what it means to pass as white, and whether there really is a dilemma that accompanies white privilege. At the heart of this collection are analyses of the relationships between the construction of whiteness and the realities of racism, and politics that hope for a connection between understanding racial formations and resisting racisms.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 1 Introduction: Reflections on Whiteness
Part 3 I: Glancing Backward
Chapter 4 2 My Grandmother's Passing
Chapter 5 3 My Father's Flag
Chapter 6 4 Growing Up in Little Rock
Chapter 7 5 Pinay White Woman
Part 8 II: Performing Whiteness
Chapter 9 6 The American Celebration of Whiteness
Chapter 10 7 The King of Whiteness
Chapter 11 8 "Whitie" and "Dyke": Constructions of Identities in the Classroom
Part 12 III: Identity and Privilege
Chapter 13 9 White Ideas
Chapter 14 10 Despising an Identity They Taught Me to Claim
Chapter 15 11 The Other Colors of Whiteness: A Travelogue
Part 16 Epilogue
Part 17 Related Reading
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | 17 Nov 1999 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781461621881 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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It will be of value to a variety of readers. . . . Many of the accounts will engage, challenge and unsettle readers.
Feminist Theory
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This is a very worthy collection.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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Is a book that ought to be taught in interdisciplinary seminars on feminist theories and practice. Showcases important analytic developments in recent feminist thought to theorize the intersections among race, class, and gender.
Feminist Formations
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Anyone following the rapidly becoming huge number of writings on 'whiteness' will be interested in this book.
Race Relations Abstracts
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Chris Cuomo and Kim Hall's Whiteness, is a new classroom resource, in the honorable tradition of feminist consciousness raising, that can help students enter the discussion of the social construction of race through the accessible language of personal narrative. Whiteness will be a model, for students, of a kind of consciousness raisin that is overtly struggling with the tendency to confess and feel better. At the same time their own consciousness raising experience, provoked by the narratives in the book, will engage them directly in the tension between personal reflection and political engagement.
Philosophy in Review
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This new collection of feminist philosophical reflections will provide a valuable resource for readers dedicated to combatting white supremacism.
Vron Ware, author of Beyond the Pale; Department of Sociology, Yale University

























