ISBN:
9781793639011
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 157 Seiten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Philosophy of race
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Weiße
;
Rassismus
;
White people / Race identity / United States
;
Race awareness / United States
;
Racism / United States
;
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
;
Responsibility / United States
;
United States / Race relations
;
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
;
Race awareness
;
Race relations
;
Racism
;
Responsibility
;
Whites / Race identity
;
United States
;
Weiße
;
Rassismus
Abstract:
"White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The contradictions and possibilities of white ignorance -- White ignorance is structural -- Declarations and absolutions : moral paradoxes of white ignorance -- Punitive whiteness : affective economies of white guilt and shame -- Complicit responsibility and transformative whiteness -- Conclusion: Against white success
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