Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy) by Indiana University Press Title: Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy)

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Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy) by Indiana University Press

great book in a field that needs more work

Dr Sullivan's work in this book is a masterful blend of pragmatism, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology to reveal the hidden privelges that we white-people engage in without our awareness, and thus helps to open up a new dimension of self-understanding that is sorely needed in our society. Thinking of onesself in terms of race isn't just for minorities anymore!
Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy) by Indiana University Press

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"[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience." —Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race

Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and selfsearching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan’s theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern.