| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- White ignorance and denials of complicity : linking "benefiting from" to "contributing to" -- The subject of White complicity -- The epistemology of complicity : the discourse of not knowing and refusing to know -- Moral responsibility and complicity in philosophical scholarship -- Rearticulating White moral responsibility -- White complicity pedagogy |
| Summary |
"Contemporary 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 and that can help white students understand and acknowledge their white complicity"--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Racism.
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Responsibility.
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Whites.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
073914491X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0739144936 (electronic bk.) |
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9780739144916 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780739144930 (electronic bk.) |
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