White On White/black On Black

by Yancy, George; West, Cornel; Alston, Kal; Asante, Molefi Kete; Bergo, Bettina G.; Bernasconi, Robert; Jones, Janine; Cuomo, Chris; Johnson, Clarence Sholé; McClendon III, John H.; Moses, Greg; Roelofs, Monique; Sartwell, Crispin; Stubblefield, Anna

• ISBN13: 9780742514805
• ISBN10: 0742514803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The text explores how 14 philosophers, 7 white and 7 black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Waking up white and in Memphis	p. 17
White and cracking up	p. 27
"Wigger"	p. 35
Unmasking through naming : toward an ethic and Africology of whiteness	p. 49
Meditations on postsupremacist philosophy	p. 71
Racialization as an aesthetic production : what does the aesthetic do for whiteness and blackness and vice versa?	p. 83
"Circulez! Il n'y a rien a voir," or, "seeing white" : from phenomenology to psychoanalysis and back	p. 125
(Re)conceptualizing blackness and making race obsolescent	p. 173
Blackness as an ethical trope: toward a post-Western assertion	p. 203
Tongue smell color black	p. 217
"Seeing blackness" from within the Manichean Divide	p. 233
Blackness and the quest for authenticity	p. 265
Act your age and not your color : blackness as material conditions, presumptive context, and social category	p. 275
Knowing blackness, becoming blackness, valuing blackness	p. 297
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