Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy)

"[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience." —Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race Revealing 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 privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan’s theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern. This book examines how white privilege operates as unseen, invisible, even seemingly nonexistent, and suggest that because of this hidden mode of operation, something more indirect than and much different from conscious argumentation against white privilege is needed to combat it. It is a personal and self-searching book in which 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 privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan's theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern Cover......Page 1 C O N T E N TS......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 11 introduction......Page 14 PART ONE Unconscious Habit......Page 28 ONE Ignorance and Habit......Page 30 TWO Engaging the Isolated Unconscious......Page 58 THREE Seductive Habits of White Privilege......Page 76 FOUR Global Habits, Collective Hauntings......Page 107 PART TWO Possessive Geographies......Page 132 FIVE Appropriate Habits of White Privilege......Page 134 SIX Race, Space, and Place......Page 156 SEVEN In Defense of Separatism......Page 180 Conclusion......Page 199 Notes......Page 212 Bibliography......Page 242 Index......Page 254 Resource Added For The Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 Courses. 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. Shannon Sullivan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 229-240) And Index.