White Self-criticality Beyond Anti-racism

How Does it Feel to be a White Problem?

• Author(s): George Yancy,
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Pages: 253
• ISBN_10: 0739189492
  ISBN_13: 9780739189498
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Social , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Minority Studies , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... 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.