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Book SynopsisFrom a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
Trade Review"Yancy shares his experience as a black male philosophy professor teaching topics on race to white students. He very effectively uses a quasi-autobiographical narrative to situate various issues regarding race within the classroom, which he takes to be a model of racial discourse that mirrors American society... Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, December 2012 "George Yancy's Look, A White! Is not an introductory book, but its rich offering of examples of white privilege from university settings would make it particularly attractive to college students, as well as faculty...a beneficial addition to the growing field of critical philosophy of race."- Radical Philosophy
Table of ContentsForeword Racist Onions and Etchings; Naomi Zack; Acknowledgements; Introduction Flipping the Script; 1 Looking at Whiteness: Finding Myself Much Like a Mugger; at a Boardwalk's End; 2 Looking at Whiteness: Subverting White Academic Spaces; through the Pedagogical Perspective of bell hooks; 3 Looking at Whiteness: The Colonial Semiotics in Kamau; Brathwaite's Reading of The Tempest; 4 Looking at Whiteness: Whiting Up and Blacking Out in; White Chicks; 5 Looking at Whiteness: Loving Wisdom and Playing; with Danger; 6 Looking at Whiteness: Tarrying with the Embedded and; Opaque White Racist Self; Index; About the Author.
