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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457576203321

Autore

Sullivan Shannon <1967->

Titolo

Revealing whiteness [[electronic resource] ] : the unconscious habits of racial privilege / / Shannon Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612072932

1-282-07293-5

0-253-11213-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

American philosophy

Disciplina

305.809

Soggetti

White people - Race identity

Racism

Race discrimination

Habit - Social aspects

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ignorance and habit -- Engaging the isolated unconscious -- Seductive habits of White privilege -- Global habits, collective hauntings -- Appropriate habits of White privilege -- Race, space, and place -- In defense of separatism.

Sommario/riassunto

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