What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like takes a unique approach to the subject by collecting the ideas of African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issues of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. What does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience? In this volume, Robert Birt asks if whites can live whiteness authentically. Janine Jones examines what it means to be a goodwill white. Joy James tells of beating her addiction to white supremacy, while Arnold Farr writes on making whiteness visible in Western philosophy. What White Looks Like brings a badly needed critique and philosophically sophisticated perspective to central issue of contemporary society.

Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/24/2004
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780415966160

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 868
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2006 pg. 27

About the Author

George Yancy holds the McCracken Fellowship in Africaana Studies at New York University. He has edited three previous books, including African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (Routledge, 1998), Cornel West: ACritical Reader (2001), and The Philosophical i: PersonalReflections on Life in Philosophy (2002).

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