Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction

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Indiana University Press, 26.03.2009 - 272 Seiten

Habits of Whiteness offers a new way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them. According to Terrance MacMullan, the concept of racial whiteness has undermined attempts to create a truly democratic society in the United States. By getting to the core of the racism that lives on in unrecognized habits, MacMullan argues clearly and charitably for white folk to recognize the distance between their color-blind ideals and their actual behavior. Revitalizing the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and John Dewey, MacMullan shows how it is possible to reconstruct racial habits and close the gap between people. This forthright and persuasive analysis of the impulses of whiteness ultimately reorganizes them into something more compatible with our country's increasingly multicultural heritage.

 

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7 Whiteness in PostCivil Rights America
129
8 Contemporary Debates on Whiteness
146
Part 4 Reconstructing Whiteness
165
9 Habits of Whiteness
167
10 Whiteness Reconstructed
182
Gifts beyond the Pale
211
Notes
227
Bibliography
243

6 Du Boiss Critique of Whiteness
110
Part 3 Contemporary Problems and Debates
127
Index
251
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Über den Autor (2009)

Terrance MacMullan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Honors at Eastern Washington University. He is co-editor of Revealing Male Bodies (IUP, 2002). He lives in Spokane, Washington.

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