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60Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon SullivanphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6 (1): 142-145. 2016.Review of Shannon Sullivan's Good White People
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58The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation of the Gendered BodyHypatia 22 (2). 2007.Historically critical reflection on whiteness in the United States has been a long-standing practice in slave folklore and in Mexican resistance to colonialism, Asian American struggles against exploitation and containment, and Native American stories of contact with European colonizers. Drawing from this legacy and from the disturbing silence on “whiteness” in postsecondary institutions, critical whiteness scholarship has emerged in the past two decades in U.S. academies in a variety of discipl…Read more
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43Newark LessonsPhilosophy Today 62 (4): 1213-1217. 2018."Newark Lessons" offers a response to the harassment and threats that George Yancy faced after the publication of his "Dear White America" letter, published in the New York Times on 24 December, 2015. The Newark Lessons are an autobiographical account how the white community of my childhood used the Newark Race Riots/Rebellions as a trope to teach me about the value of whiteness. I discuss the damaging effects of these lessons in terms of the collateral damage of white supremacy for white peo…Read more
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42Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical ReflectionsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Written in an engaging narrative style these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false natualistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender, by considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture. Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here disc…Read more
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19Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace (edited book)BRILL. 2002.This book has its philosophical starting point in the idea that group-based social movements have positive implications for peace politics. It explores ways of imagining community, nation, and international systems through a political lens that is attentive to diversity and different lived experiences. Contributors suggest how groups might work toward new nonviolent conceptions and experiences of diverse communities and global stability.
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