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Good white people : the problem with middle-class white anti-racism /
Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as "white middle-class goodness," an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, philosophy and race.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as "white middle-class goodness," an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one's lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness--especially in the context of white childrearing--and the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.--Publisher description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 214 pages .) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438451701 1438451709 |
| Acceso: | Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest 1 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. |