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White Privilege

Fifth Edition ©2015 Paula S. Rothenberg

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; th...

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White Privilege by Paula S. Rothenberg - Fifth Edition, 2015 from Macmillan Student Store

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:

  • color-blind racism

  • virtual probation

  • socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege

  • racial profiling,

  • how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race

  • the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black

  • the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color,

  • "flying while brown"

  • the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more.

Features

New to This Edition

The fifth edition includes new Question for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion in every part, an expansion of the bell hooks’ piece, Representations of Whiteness in Black Imagination, an updated version Paula Kivel’s piece from Uprooting Racism and 8 new articles!

New Articles

The Invisibility of Whiteness: Derald Wing Sue uses three everyday scenarios to examine how whiteness operates at different levels of our society: a norm that structures relationships between individuals, cultural messages that we receive through media and other sources, and through institutional policies and practices.

Dead Black Man Walking, Just Walking: William David Hart looks back through history at the chronic violence which black people have been subjected and how it resonates in racial dynamics today. Hart eloquently explores concepts of social death, civic death, virtual probation, color blind racism, and the criminogenic gaze, to examine how the teenage Trayvon Martin could be killed just for walking on a rainy day.

The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race Immigration and American Gate Keeping: Erika Lee offers a historical grounding in policies and practices that institutionalize race-based exclusions of immigrants.

Neither Black Nor White: Angelo N. Ancheta offers a contemporary look at the racial positioning of groups who occupy the complex space of not being white but maintain some racial privilege by virtue of not being black.

Are Iranians People of Color? Persian, Muslim, and Model Minority Race Politics: Alex Shams uses his own identity as a light-skinned biracial Iranian-American as a starting point to explore the term "people of color". He discusses the racial position of simultaneously passing as white and being targeted by racial profiling.

My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Robin DiAngelo discusses her upbringing as a poor person to demonstrate how her white privilege was sustained even in the absence of class privilege.

I Taught My Black Kids: Lawrence Otis Graham shares how his experience of class privilege, and the economic resources he has been able to afford, has not protected him or his sons from anti-black racism or racial profiling.

Where Do We Go After Ferguson? Michael Eric Dyson asks us to examine the death of Michael Brown and ensuing social protest in Ferguson and beyond within the context of Obama’s presidency. Dyson looks at how the myth of racial progress and respectability politics circulate during times of visible racial conflict.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Whiteness: The Power of Invisibility

  1. The Matter of Whiteness- Richard Dyer

  2. Failing to See- Harlon Dalton

  3. NEW: The Invisible Whiteness of Being- Derald Wing Sue

  4. EXPANDED: Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination- bell hooks

  5. NEW: Dead Black Man, Just Walking-William David Hart

Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part One

　

Part 2: Whiteness: The Power of the Past

  1. The Roots of Racial Classification- Philip C. Wander, Judith N. Martin, and Thomas K. Nakayama

  2. NEW: The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924—Erika Lee

  3. How White People Became White- James E. Barrett and David Roediger

  4. How Jews Became White Folks- Karen Brodkin

  5. Becoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and Whiteness- Neil Foley

  6. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness- George Lipsitz

  7. Global White Supremacy- Charles W. Mills

  8. NEW: Neither Black nor White- Angelo N. Ancheta

Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Two

 

Part 3: Whiteness: The Power of Privilege

  1. Making Systems of Privilege Visible- Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis

  2. Privilege as Paradox- Allan G. Johnson

  3. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack- Peggy McIntosh

  4. White Privilege/White Supremacy- Robert Jensen

  5. Membership Has Its Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness- Tim Wise

  6. NEW: Are Iranians People of Color? Persians, Muslim and Model Minority Race Politics- Alex Shams

  7. NEW: My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege-Robin DiAngelo

  8. NEW: I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them From Discrimination. I Was Wrong—Lawrence Otis Graham

  9. NEW: Where do We Go After Ferguson?- Michael Eric Dyson

Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Three

 

Part 4: Whiteness: The Power of Resistance

  1. Breaking the Silence- Beverly Tatum

  2. Confronting One's Own Racism- Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera

  3. UPDATED: How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism- Paul Kivel

Questions for Thinking Writing and Discussion for Part Four

 

Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

Paula S. Rothenberg

Paula S. Rothenberg was a Senior Fellow at The Murphy Institute, City University of New York and Professor at William Patterson University of New Jersey. From 1989 to 2006 she served as Director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching. She was the author of several books including the autobiographical *Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender*. With Worth Publishers she has authored four titles--the best-selling *Race, Class, and Gender*; White Privilege; Beyond Borders; and *What's the Problem? *She was also co-editor of a number of anthologies including *Creating and Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project and Feminist Frameworks*: *Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men*, one of the first women’s studies texts. Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies across the disciplines and have been widely reprinted. Her work was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies and multicultural studies as academic disciplines.