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The weight of whiteness : a feminist engagement with privilege, race, and ignorance / Alison Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Alison, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Philosophy of race.
- Philosophy of race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White nationalism.
- Racism.
- White people--Race identity.
- White people.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- The Weight of Whiteness invites white people to wade mindfully into the inherited epistemic and affective weight of whiteness. It examines the ways that white supremacy and privilege continue to anesthetize white people from the inherited damage that whiteness does to our collective humanity.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1
- Understanding Privilege as Unearned Power Conferred Systemically
- Understanding Oppression Systemically
- All Privileges Are Advantages, but Not All Advantages Are Privileges
- Exposing Privilege as a Special Class of Advantage: A Rough Taxonomy
- Complicating Privilege: Counterexamples and Considerations
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- The Problem with White Talk Fluttering around the White Problem
- Why Start with White Talk?
- What Is White Talk?
- The Problem with White Talk: Moral, Ontological, and Epistemic Rewards
- Okay, So Just Tell Me What to Say!
- Whiteness with Minimal Fluttering: "Vulnerability-as-Potential" as a New Point of Entry
- Chapter 3
- Tracking Privilege
- Does This Happen When You Teach?
- What Is Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback?
- Critical Thinking, Healthy Skepticism, and Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback
- Using "Shadow Texts" to Track Privilege- Preserving Epistemic Pushback Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback and Epistemic Silencing
- Chapter 4
- The Weighty Conversation
- Newark Lessons
- Historical Invitations to the Weighty Conversation
- Barriers to the Weighty Conversation
- Wading into the Weight: A Token to Carry into the Conversation
- Measuring the Weight of Whiteness in Terms of Cost and Loss
- Weight, Gravitas, and the Loss of Humanity
- Understanding What White Supremacy Costs White People
- Feeling What White Supremacy and Privilege Cost Us
- Chapter 5
- Inheriting the Weight of Whiteness How the Gravitational Pull of Whiteness Shapes Pedigree
- A Cautionary Tale: Ben Affleck's Anesthetized Pedigree
- Genealogy without Anesthesia
- The Medicinal Value of Family Genealogy
- Medicinal White Genealogies - -Holding Space with Our Ancestors
- Slavery in the Province of New Jersey
- Holding Space with My Morgan and Van Wickle Ancestors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-7936-0450-9
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