Alison Bailey

The Weight of Whiteness

A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Philosophy of Race
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781793604491
• ISBN-10: 1793604495
• Artikelnr.: 60605777

Autorenporträt

By Alison Bailey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Has The Weight Finally Come Up to Claim Us?
1. Understanding Privilege as Unearned Power Conferred Systemically
2. The Problem with White Talk: Ignorance and Epistemic Closure
3. Tracking Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback in Feminist Philosophy
and Critical Race Theory Classes
4. The Weighty Conversation: How White Supremacy Damages White People
5. Inheriting the Weight of Whiteness
Bibliography