Description
"[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.
Author: Shannon Sullivan
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780253218483
ISBN10: 0253218489
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
About the Author
Shannon Sullivan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins (IUP, 2001).