White privilege Essential readings on the other side of racism
Book - 2016
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- Published
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New York, NY :
Worth Publishers
2016.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Fifth edition
- Physical Description
- 232 pages
- ISBN
- 9781429242202
- Preface
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Part 1. Whiteness: The Power of Invisibility
- 1. The Matter of Whiteness
- 2. Failing to See
- 3. The Invisible Whiteness of Being
- 4. Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination
- 5. Dead Black Man, Just Walking
- Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part One
- Part 2. Whiteness: The Power of the Past
- 1. The Roots of Racial Classification
- 2. The Chinese Exclusion Example
- 3. How White People Became White Folks
- 4. How Jews Became White Folks
- 5. Becoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and Whiteness
- 6. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
- 7. Global White Supremacy
- 8. Neither Black nor White
- Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Two
- Part 3. Whiteness: The Power of Privilege
- 1. Making Systems of Privilege Visible
- 2. Privilege as Paradox
- 3. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- 4. White Privilege/White Supremacy
- 5. Membership Has Its Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness
- 6. Are Iranians People of Color? Persian, Muslim, and Model Minority Race Politics
- 7. My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege
- 8. I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them from Discrimination. I Was Wrong
- 9. Where Do We Go After Ferguson?
- Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Three
- Part 4. Whiteness: The Power of Resistance
- 1. Breaking the Silence
- 2. Confronting One's Own Racism
- 3. How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism
- Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Four
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index