Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

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Indiana University Press, 2006 M03 28 - 264 páginas

"[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience." -- Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race

Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and selfsearching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan's theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern.

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Acknowledgments
introduction
PART ONE Unconscious Habit
one Ignorance and Habit
two Engaging the Isolated Unconscious
three Seductive Habits of White Privilege
four Global Habits Collective Hauntings
PART TWO Possessive Geographies
five Appropriate Habits of White Privilege
six Race Space and Place
seven In Defense of Separatism
conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Shannon Sullivan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins (IUP, 2001).

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