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Look, A White! : Philosophical Essays on Whiteness by George Yancy is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Look, A White! : Philosophical Essays on Whiteness about?

Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness. He considers whiteness within the context of racial embodiment, film, pedagogy, colonialism, its "danger," and its position within the work of specific writers. Identifying the embedded and opaque ways white power and privilege operate, Yancy argues that the Black countergaze can function as a "gift" to whites in terms of seeing their own whiteness more effectively. Throughout Look, a White! Yancy pays special attention to the impact of whiteness on individuals, as well as on how the structures of whiteness limit the capacity of social actors to completely untangle the way whiteness operates, thus preventing the erasure of racism in social life.

Who reads Look, A White! : Philosophical Essays on Whiteness?

Author

George Yancy

Publisher

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439908532

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.21 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13