Good white people : the problem with middle-class white anti-racism

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Label

Good white people : the problem with middle-class white anti-racism

Title remainder

the problem with middle-class white anti-racism

Statement of responsibility

Shannon Sullivan

Creator

• Sullivan, Shannon, 1967-

Subject

• Anti-racism -- United States
• Ethnische Beziehung
• Middle class
• Middle class -- United States
• Mittelstand
• Race relations
• Since 1980
• Social conditions
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
• Weiße
• Whites -- Attitudes
• Whites -- United States -- Attitudes
• Anti-racism

Language

eng

Summary

Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as "white middle-class goodness," an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one's lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness--especially in the context of white childrearing--and the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it--Publisher description

Member of

• SUNY series, philosophy and race

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.800973

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.A1

LC item number

S954 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

SUNY series, Philosophy and race