Revealing whiteness : the unconscious habits of racial privilege / Shannon Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Shannon, 1967-

Series:

American philosophy.

American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Racism.

Race discrimination.

Habit--Social aspects.

Habit.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-240) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072932

1-282-07293-5

0-253-11213-3

OCLC:

476041199