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The center must not hold : white women philosophers on the whiteness of philosophy / George Yancy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yancy, George.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Philosophy.
- Race relations.
- Race--Philosophy.
- Race.
- Racism.
- Women philosophers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collection, white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Focuses on the whiteness of the epistemic and value-laden norms within philosophy itself, the text dares to identify the proverbial elephant in the room known as white supremacy and how that supremacy functions as the measure of reason, knowledge, and philosophical intelligibility.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Troublemaking Allies; Chapter 1: White Ignorance and the Denials of Complicity: On the Possibility of Doing Philosophy in Good Faith; Chapter 2: Reading Black Philosophers in Chronological Order; Chapter 3: On Intersectionality and the Whiteness of Feminist Philosophy; Chapter 4: The Man of Culture: The Civilized and the Barbarian in Western Philosophy; Chapter 5: Whiteness and Rationality: Feminist Dialogue on Race in Academic Institutional spaces
- Chapter 6: Appropriate Subjects: Whiteness and the Discipline of PhilosophyChapter 7: Color in the Theory of Colors? Or: Are Philosophers' Colors All White?; Chapter 8: The Secularity of Philosophy: Race, Religion, and the Silence of Exclusion; Chapter 9: Philosophy's Whiteness and the Loss of Wisdom; Chapter 10: Against the Whiteness of Ethics: Dilemmatizing as a Critical Approach; Chapter 11: The Whiteness of Anti-Racist White Philosophical Address; Chapter 12: Colonial Practices/Colonial Identities: All the Women are Still White; Chapter 13: Is Philosophy Anything if it Isn't White?; Index
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- First paperback edition 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-8829-0
- 9786613911735
- 1-283-59928-7
- 0-7391-3883-9
- OCLC:
- 817812559
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