| Title | : | Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness |
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| ISBN | : | 1439908532 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781439908532 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2012 |
He considers whiteness within the context of racial embodiment, film, pedagogy, colonialism, its "danger," and its position within the work of specific writers. Identifying the embedded and opaque ways white power and privilege operate, Yancy argues that the Black countergaze can function as a "gift" to whites in terms of seeing their own whiteness more effectively.
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Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness Reviews
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"The entire philosophical performance, with all of its props, constitutes a site of effective (white) history, a history that points to a continuous chain of white men 'jerking off' with wild gesticulations, hands flailing while delineating some supposedly grand philosophical distinctions or while articulating a philosophical system that eventually comes to elide its human face. Trained to do philosophy in such normative spaces (that is, white spaces), young white philosophers (men and women) come to inhabit academic spaces without question, without critical self-reflexivity, without readjusting their white gazes."
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Literally changed my perception as I read through it. Once you see things, you can't unsee them. I would recommend highly.
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This was not bad as a book on sociology of race, although not great either. I think the author has a fundamental misconception of what “philosophy” is though. Using words like epistemic and using quotes from Heidegger does not philosophy make.
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I LOVE
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305.8 Y21 2012
