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: 9780742514812
• ISBN10: 0742514811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-25
• 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	ix
Cornel West
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
George Yancy
Part I: White on White
1 Waking Up White and in Memphis	17	(10)
Robert Bernasconi
2 White and Cracking Up	27	(8)
Chris Cuomo
3 "Wigger"	35	(14)
Crispin Sartwell
4 Unmasking through Naming: Toward an Ethic and Africology of Whiteness	49	(22)
Greg Moses
5 Meditations on Postsupremacist Philosophy	71	(12)
Anna Stubblefield
6 Racialization as an Aesthetic Production: What Does the Aesthetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa?	83	(42)
Monique Roelofs
7 "Circulez! Il n'y a rien à voir," Or, "Seeing White": From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis and Back	125	(48)
Bettina G. Bergo
Part II: Black on Black
8 (Re)Conceptualizing Blackness and Making Race Obsolescent	173	(30)
Clarence Sholé Johnson
9 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Assertion	203	(14)
Molefi Kete Asante
10 Tongue Smell Color black	217	(16)
Janine Jones
11 "Seeing Blackness" from Within the Manichean Divide	233	(32)
George Yancy
12 Blackness and the Quest for Authenticity	265	(10)
Robert Birt
13 Act Your Age and Not Your Color: Blackness as Material Conditions, Presumptive Context, and Social Category	275	(22)
John H. McClendon III
14 Knowing Blackness, Becoming Blackness, Valuing Blackness	297	(12)
Kal Alston
Index	309	(6)
About the Contributors	315