"George Yancy's Look, A White! Is not an introductory book, but its rich offering of examples of white privilege from university settings would make it particularly attractive to college students, as well as faculty...a beneficial addition to the growing field of critical philosophy of race." - Radical Philosophy

From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness.
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
Foreword Racist Onions and Etchings; Naomi Zack; Acknowledgements; Introduction Flipping the Script; 1 Looking at Whiteness: Finding Myself Much Like a Mugger; at a Boardwalk's End; 2 Looking at Whiteness: Subverting White Academic Spaces; through the Pedagogical Perspective of bell hooks; 3 Looking at Whiteness: The Colonial Semiotics in Kamau; Brathwaite's Reading of The Tempest; 4 Looking at Whiteness: Whiting Up and Blacking Out in; White Chicks; 5 Looking at Whiteness: Loving Wisdom and Playing; with Danger; 6 Looking at Whiteness: Tarrying with the Embedded and; Opaque White Racist Self; Index; About the Author.
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"George Yancy's Look, A White! Is not an introductory book, but its rich offering of examples of white privilege from university settings would make it particularly attractive to college students, as well as faculty...a beneficial addition to the growing field of critical philosophy of race." - Radical Philosophy
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From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781439908549
Publisert
2012-05-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Temple University Press,U.S.
Vekt
313 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
228

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

George Yancy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University and Coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Speaker Series. He is the author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, which received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. He has also edited twelve influential books, three of which have received Choice Awards. He was also recently nominated for the Duquesne University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship.