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

• Autore: Sullivan Shannon <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.809
• Soggetto topico: White people - Race identity; Racism; Race discrimination; Habit - Social aspects
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations; United States Ethnic relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Revealing whiteness
• ISBN: 9786612072932; 1-282-07293-5; 0-253-11213-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457576203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American philosophy.