ISBN:
1438451709
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9781438451701
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9781438451688
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1438451687
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (pages cm)
Series Statement:
SUNY series, Philosophy and race
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sullivan, Shannon, 1967- Good white people
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Whites Attitudes
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United States
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Middle class United States
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Anti-racism United States
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Middle class
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Anti-racism
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Whites Attitudes
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Mittelstand
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Weiße
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Middle class
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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Whites ; Attitudes
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Anti-racism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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United States Race relations
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United States Social conditions
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1980-
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United States
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United States Race relations
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United States Social conditions 1980-
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USA
;
United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Introduction: Good white liberals -- Dumping on white trash : etiquette, abjection, and radical inclusion -- Demonizing white ancestors : unconscious histories and racial responsibilities -- The dis-ease of color blindness : racial absences and invisibilities in the reproduction of whiteness -- The dangers of white guilt, shame, and betrayal : toward white self-love -- Conclusion: Struggles over love.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
