Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

By George Yancy

Book Overview

Look, a White returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness.

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.

Throughout Look, a White Yancy pays special attention to the impact of whiteness on individuals, as well as on how the structures of whiteness limit the capacity of social actors to completely untangle the way whiteness operates, thus preventing the erasure of racism in social life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439908532
• ISBN13: 9781439908532
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"