{"product_id":"being-white-being-good-9780739144916","title":"Being White Being Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity entails, and to offer recommendations for how white complicity can be taught. The book highlights how well-intentioned white people who might even consider themselves as paragons of antiracism might be unwittingly sustaining an unjust system that they say they want to dismantle. What could it mean for white people to be good when they can reproduce and maintain racist system even when, and especially when, they believe themselves to be good? In order to answer this question, Barbara Applebaum advocates a shift in our understanding of the subject, of language, and of moral responsibility. Based on these shifts a new notion of moral responsibility is articulated that is not focused on guilt an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy rigorously mapping the intricacies of white complicity vis-à-vis systemic racism, inspired by robust social justice concerns, and using white complicity pedagogy as her point of methodological embarkation, Barbara Applebaum, in Being White, Being Good, has profoundly troubled the waters of whiteness studies, identified its intrinsic limits, and forced a deeper and more honest self-reflexive posture on the part of its white practitioners to be cognizant (even as this is always already limited) of white moral self-glorification, white 'good intentions' and white self-cognitive sophistication—all forms of distancing strategies. Applebaum does all of this while simultaneously not shying away from offering a form of ethical responsibility that is fueled precisely through the recognition of the social ontology and ineluctability of racist complicity. This is racial theory and critical pedagogy born of fearless speech and fearless listening. -- George Yancy, professor of philosophy, Emory University\u003cbr\u003eApplebaum has put together an impressive array of theoretical resources in this meticulously argued account of white complicity and its attendant pedagogical challenges. She intricately weaves together her analysis of poststructural subjectivity and agency with philosophical discussions of complicity to articulate a new form of moral responsibility no longer reliant on blame but robustly concerned with responsibility. -- Cris Mayo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003eApplebaum’s argument is ultimately a cautionary one, providing no doubt an important corrective to white social justice advocates who think they can somehow bracket or, even worse, move beyond their privilege. Applebaum makes this point extremely well. She also details a very thoughtful model for responsibility under complicity that offers some important broad guidelines for how we ought to think differently about our privilege, and about how we ought to teach about diversity issues. * Journal of Philosophy of Education *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction – The White Complicity Claim Chapter 2: White Ignorance and Denials of Complicity: Linking \"Benefiting From\" to \"Contributing To\" Chapter 3: The Subject of White Complicity Chapter 4: The Epistemology of Complicity: The Discourse of Not Knowing and Refusing to Know Chapter 5: Moral Responsibility and Complicity in Philosophical Scholarship Chapter 6: Rearticulating White Moral Responsibility 7 Chapter 7: White Complicity Pedagogy","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037492707671,"sku":"9780739144916","price":88.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739144916.jpg?v=1750935949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-white-being-good-9780739144916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}