LEADER 04383nam 22007452 450 001 9911008437803321 005 20170502152737.0 010 $a9786612080555 010 $a9781580463133 010 $a1580463134 010 $a9781282080553 010 $a1282080555 010 $a9781580466776 010 $a158046677X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781580466776 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722675 035 $a(OCoLC)317328225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10354607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107867 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11983932 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107867 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017885 035 $a(PQKB)11358985 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781580466776 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003586 035 $a(DE-B1597)674350 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781580466776 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722675 100 $a20161111d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAutobiography of an ex-white man $elearning a new master narrative for America /$fRobert Paul Wolff 210 1$aRochester, NY :$cUniversity of Rochester Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (136 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017). 311 08$a9781580461801 311 08$a1580461808 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 134-132) and index. 330 $aAutobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and his experiences in the Department with his new colleagues, all of whom had come to Academia from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Wolff discovered that the apparently simple act of moving across campus to a new Department in a new building worked a startling change in the way he saw himself, his university, and his country. Reading as widely as possible to bring himself up to speed in his new field of academic responsibility, Wolff realized after a bit that his picture of American history and culture was undergoing an irreversible metamorphosis. America, he realized, has from its inception been a land both of Freedom and of Bondage: Freedom for the few, and then for those who are White; Bondage at first for the many, and then for those who are not White. Slavery is thus not an aberration, an accident, a Peculiar Institution -- it is the essence and core of the American experience.
Wolff's optimistic outlook leads him to express the hope that our acknowledging the realities of America's racial history and present will begin to tear down the formidable barrier to change. He sees this refashioning of the American story as a first step toward the crafting of a truly liberatory project.

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