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Revealing whiteness : the unconscious habits of racial privilege

This book examines how white privilege operates as unseen, invisible, even seemingly nonexistent, and suggest that because of this hidden mode of operation, something more indirect than and much different from conscious argumentation against white privilege is needed to combat it. It is a personal and self-searching book in which 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 per
eBook, English, 2006
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2006
1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
9780253112132, 9786612072932, 9781282072930, 0253112133, 6612072938, 1282072935
105051379
Ignorance and habit
Engaging the isolated unconscious
Seductive habits of White privilege
Global habits, collective hauntings
Appropriate habits of White privilege
Race, space, and place
In defense of separatism
English