In The Gratifications of Whiteness, Ella Myers looks at W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness to argue that his writings offer powerful insights into the rewards that white identity has offered to Americans, both in the past and present. Focusing on three key motifs found in his work--wage, pleasure, dominion--Myers shows that to Du Bois, whiteness is not one thing, but many. Highlighting how Du Bois can help us recognize contemporary whiteness as a multifaceted formation, this book explores the pressing contemporary issue of what it means to be white through the lens developed by a major Black thinker.…mehr
In The Gratifications of Whiteness, Ella Myers looks at W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness to argue that his writings offer powerful insights into the rewards that white identity has offered to Americans, both in the past and present. Focusing on three key motifs found in his work--wage, pleasure, dominion--Myers shows that to Du Bois, whiteness is not one thing, but many. Highlighting how Du Bois can help us recognize contemporary whiteness as a multifaceted formation, this book explores the pressing contemporary issue of what it means to be white through the lens developed by a major Black thinker.
Ella Myers is a political theorist and Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is author of Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World (2013).
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. The Gratifications of Whiteness * Chapter 2. Whiteness as Wage: Reaping the Rewards of Racial Capitalism * Chapter 3. Whiteness as Pleasure: Anti-Black Brutality and Sadistic Enjoyment * Chapter 4. Whiteness as Dominion: The Racial-Colonial Ethos of Ownership * Chapter 5. Resistances: Du Boisean Propaganda, World Building, and Black Lives Matter * Epilogue: Abolitionist Possibilities * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. The Gratifications of Whiteness * Chapter 2. Whiteness as Wage: Reaping the Rewards of Racial Capitalism * Chapter 3. Whiteness as Pleasure: Anti-Black Brutality and Sadistic Enjoyment * Chapter 4. Whiteness as Dominion: The Racial-Colonial Ethos of Ownership * Chapter 5. Resistances: Du Boisean Propaganda, World Building, and Black Lives Matter * Epilogue: Abolitionist Possibilities * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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