Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections
- ISBN-10
- 0847692949
- ISBN-13
- 9780847692941
- Series
- Whiteness
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 133
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
- Authors
- Peter J. Markie, Anthony Kenny, Lisa Tessman
Description
Written in an engaging narrative style these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false natualistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender, by considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture. Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here discuss how one learns to be a good white Southern woman, what it means to pass as white, and whether there really is a dilemma that accompanies white privilege.
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