Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. White Privilege leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; the historical development of whiteness and its role in race relations over time; the real everyday effects of privilege and its opposite, oppression; and finally, how our system of privilege can be changed.
The thoroughly updated fifth edition explores:
- color-blind racism
- virtual probation
- socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege
- racial profiling,
- how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race
- the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black
- the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color,
- "flying while brown"
- the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more.
Paula S. Rothenberg is a Senior Fellow at The Murphy Institute, City University of New York and Professor Emerita at William Patterson University of New Jersey. From 1989 to 2006 she served as Director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching. She is the author of several books including the autobiographical Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender. With Worth Publishers she has auhored four titles--the best-selling Race, Class, and Gender; White Privilege; Beyond Borders; and her newest title What's the Problem? She is also co-editor of a number of anthologies including Creating and Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project and Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, one of the first women’s studies texts. Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies across the disciplines and have been widely reprinted. Her work was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies and multicultural studies as academic disciplines.
Introduction Part 1: Whiteness: The Power of Invisibility
- The Matter of Whiteness- Richard Dyer
- Failing to See- Harlon Dalton
- NEW:
The Invisible Whiteness of Being- Derald Wing Sue - EXPANDED:
Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination- bell hooks - NEW:
Dead Black Man, Just Walking-William David Hart
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part One
Part 2: Whiteness: The Power of the Past
The Roots of Racial Classification- Philip C. Wander, Judith N. Martin, and Thomas K. NakayamaNEW: The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924—Erika Lee
How White People Became White- James E. Barrett and David RoedigerHow Jews Became White Folks- Karen BrodkinBecoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and Whiteness- Neil FoleyThe Possessive Investment in Whiteness- George LipsitzGlobal White Supremacy- Charles W. MillsNEW: Neither Black nor White- Angelo N. Ancheta
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Two Part 3: Whiteness: The Power of Privilege
Making Systems of Privilege Visible- Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis Privilege as Paradox- Allan G. JohnsonWhite Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack- Peggy McIntoshWhite Privilege/White Supremacy- Robert JensenMembership Has Its Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness- Tim WiseNEW: Are Iranians People of Color? Persians, Muslim and Model Minority Race Politics- Alex Shams
NEW: My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege-Robin DiAngelo
NEW: I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them From Discrimination. I Was Wrong—Lawrence Otis Graham
NEW: Where do We Go After Ferguson?- Michael Eric Dyson
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Three
Part 4: Whiteness: The Power of Resistance
- Breaking the Silence- Beverly Tatum
- Confronting One's Own Racism- Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera
- UPDATED:
How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism- Paul Kivel
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Four
Suggestions for Further Reading Acknowledgments Index
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