Weight of Whiteness
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"Alison Bailey’s book could not have come at a more opportune time, a time when, on the one hand, white supremacy in its narrow and structural sense is being normalized by the highest levels of authority in our country and, on the other hand, where resistance and activism for racial justice is broadly and increasingly gaining recognition. Bailey’s work, courageous in its deeply personal humility and epistemic honesty, and compelling in its philosophical acuity, boldly exposes the ways in which the weight of whiteness is discounted by white people and demonstrates how this weight must not be ignored. This book offers important tools to help white people to cultivate opportunities for the weighty conversations of race that are so desperately needed today."
» Barbara Applebaum, Syracuse University
"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey's The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781793604491
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"Alison Bailey’s book could not have come at a more opportune time, a time when, on the one hand, white supremacy in its narrow and structural sense is being normalized by the highest levels of authority in our country and, on the other hand, where resistance and activism for racial justice is broadly and increasingly gaining recognition. Bailey’s work, courageous in its deeply personal humility and epistemic honesty, and compelling in its philosophical acuity, boldly exposes the ways in which the weight of whiteness is discounted by white people and demonstrates how this weight must not be ignored. This book offers important tools to help white people to cultivate opportunities for the weighty conversations of race that are so desperately needed today."
» Barbara Applebaum, Syracuse University