White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism
Author | : George Yancy |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780739189504 |
ISBN-13 | : 0739189506 |
Rating | : 4/5 (506 Downloads) |
Download or read book White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism written by George Yancy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.