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White Privilege
Fifth Edition| ©2015 Paula S. Rothenberg
Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. White Privilege leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; th...
Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. White Privilege leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; the historical development of whiteness and its role in race relations over time; the real everyday effects of privilege and its opposite, oppression; and finally, how our system of privilege can be changed.
The thoroughly updated fifth edition explores:- color-blind racism
- virtual probation
- socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege
- racial profiling,
- how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race
- the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black
- the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color,
- "flying while brown"
- the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more.
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Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. White Privilege leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; the historical development of whiteness and its role in race relations over time; the real everyday effects of privilege and its opposite, oppression; and finally, how our system of privilege can be changed.
The thoroughly updated fifth edition explores:- color-blind racism
- virtual probation
- socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege
- racial profiling,
- how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race
- the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black
- the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color,
- "flying while brown"
- the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more.
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White Privilege
Fifth Edition| ©2015
Paula S. Rothenberg

White Privilege
Fifth Edition| 2015
Paula S. Rothenberg
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Whiteness: The Power of Invisibility- The Matter of Whiteness- Richard Dyer
- Failing to See- Harlon Dalton
- NEW: The Invisible Whiteness of Being- Derald Wing Sue
- EXPANDED: Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination- bell hooks
- NEW: Dead Black Man, Just Walking-William David Hart
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part One
Part 2: Whiteness: The Power of the PastQuestions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Three
Part 4: Whiteness: The Power of Resistance- Breaking the Silence- Beverly Tatum
- Confronting One's Own Racism- Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera
- UPDATED: How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism- Paul Kivel
Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Four
Suggestions for Further Reading Acknowledgments IndexAuthors

Paula S. Rothenberg

White Privilege
Fifth Edition| 2015
Paula S. Rothenberg
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