White Privilege

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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: 1)Color-blind racism 2)Virtual probation 3)Socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege 4)Racial profiling, 5)How immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race 6)The racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black 7)The commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color, 8)"flying while brown" 9)The politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 2 Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 6 About the Author......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Part 1 Whiteness: The Power of  Invisibility......Page 16 1 The Matter of Whiteness/Richard Dyer......Page 18 2 Failing to See/Harlon Dalton......Page 24 3 The Invisible Whiteness of Being/Derald Wing Sue......Page 28 4 Representing Whiteness in  the  Black Imagination/bell hooks......Page 38 5 Dead Black Man, Just Walking/William David Hart......Page 44 Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part One......Page 56 Part 2 Whiteness: The Power of the Past......Page 58 1 The Roots of Racial Classification/Philip C. Wander, Judith N. Martin, and Thomas K. Nakayama......Page 60 2 The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882–1924/Erika Lee......Page 66 3 How White People Became White/James E. Barrett and David Roediger......Page 74 4 How Jews Became White Folks/Karen Brodkin......Page 80 5 Becoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and Whiteness/Neil Foley......Page 94 6 The Possessive Investment in  Whiteness/George Lipsitz......Page 106 7 Global White Supremacy/Charles W. Mills......Page 128 8 Neither Black nor White/Angelo N. Ancheta......Page 136 Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Two......Page 142 Part 3 Whiteness: The Power of  Privilege......Page 144 1 Making Systems of Privilege  Visible/Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis......Page 146 2 Privilege as Paradox/Allan G. Johnson......Page 154 3 White Privilege: Unpacking the  Invisible Knapsack/Peggy McIntosh......Page 160 4 White Privilege/White Supremacy/Robert Jensen......Page 166 5 Membership Has Its Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness/Tim Wise......Page 172 6 Are Iranians People of Color? Persian, Muslim, and Model Minority Race Politics/Alex Shams......Page 176 7 My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege/Robin J. DiAngelo......Page 182 8 I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them from Discrimination. I  Was  Wrong./Lawrence Otis Graham......Page 190 9 Where Do We Go After Ferguson?/Michael Eric Dyson......Page 196 Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for  Part  Three......Page 200 Part 4 Whiteness: The Power of  Resistance......Page 202 1 Breaking the Silence/Beverly Tatum......Page 204 2 Confronting One’s Own Racism/Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera......Page 210 3 How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism/Paul Kivel......Page 216 Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Four......Page 224 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 226 Acknowledgments......Page 229 Index......Page 232 Back Cover......Page 242