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

by Yancy,George; Yancy,George

• ISBN13: 9780415966153
• ISBN10: 0415966159
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies,What White Looks Liketakes 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 Likebrings a badly needed critique and philosophically sophisticated perspective to central issue of contemporary society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness	1	(210)
GEORGE YANCY
1 Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness	25	(30)
CHARLES W. MILLS
2 The Bad Faith of Whiteness	55	(10)
ROBERT E. GIRT
3 The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans	65	(22)
JANINE JONES
4 Deligitimizing the Normativity of "Whiteness": A Critical Africana Philosophical Study of the Metaphoricity of "Whiteness"	87	(20)
CLEVIS HEADLEY
5 A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/Self and the Racial Deformation of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye	107	(36)
GEORGE YANCY
6 Whiteness Visible: Enlightenment Racism and the Structure of Racialized Consciousness	143	(16)
ARNOLD FARR
7 Rehabilitate Racial Whiteness?	159	(14)
LUCIUS T. OUTLAW, JR.
8 Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness	173	(22)
LEWIS R. GORDON
9 Whiteness and Africana Phenomenology	195	(16)
PAGET HENRY
10 On the Nature of Whiteness and the Ontology of Race: Toward a Dialectical Materialist Analysis	211	(16)
JOHN H. McCLENDON III
11 Silence and Sympathy: Dewey's Whiteness	227	(16)
PAUL C. TAYLOR
12 Whiteness and Feminism: Deja Vu Discourses, What's Next?	243	(20)
BLANCHE RADFORD CURRY
13 The Academic Addict: Mainlining (& Kicking) White Supremacy (WS)	263	(6)
JOY JAMES
Index	269