Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847692949 ISBN 13: 9780847692941

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

\Chris J. Cuomo is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. Kim Q. Hall is assistant professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847692949
• ISBN 13: 9780847692941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 133
• Editor: Cuomo Chris J., Hall Kim Q.