White privilege : essential readings on the other side of racism

Title:

White privilege : essential readings on the other side of racism / [compiled by] Paula S. Rothenberg.

Format:

Book

Edition:

3rd ed.

Published:

New York : Worth Publishers, c2008.

Language:

English

Description:

ix, 182 p. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors:

Rothenberg, Paula S., 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• pt. 1. The matter of whiteness / Richard Dyer
• Failing to see / Harlon Dalton
• Representations of whiteness in the Black imagination / bell hooks ; pt. 2. The roots of racial classification / Philip C. Wander, Judith N. Martin, and Thomas K. Nakayama
• How white people became white / James E. Barrett and David Roediger
• How Jews became white folks / Karen Brodkin
• Becoming Hispanic : Mexican Americans and whiteness / Neil Foley
• The possessive investment in whiteness / George Lipsitz
• The constraint of race / Linda Faye Williams
• Global white supremacy / Charles W. Mills ; pt. 3. Making systems of privilege visible / Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D Davis
• Privilege as paradox / Allan G. Johnson
• White privilege : unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh
• White privilege shapes the U.S. / Robert Jensen
• Membership has its privileges : thoughts on acknowledging and challenging whiteness / Tim Wise
• Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, jr.
• pt. 4. Breaking the silence / Beverly Tatum
• Confronting one's own racism / Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera
• How white people can serve as allies to people of color in the struggle to end racism / Paul Kivel.

Subject headings:

Privilege (Social psychology). White people--Race identity--United States. White people--United States--Social conditions. White people--United States--Psychology. Racism--United States. United States--Race relations.

ISBN:

1429206608 (pbk.) 9781429206600 (pbk.)