White on white/black on black
By: edited By George Yancy.
Contributors: Yancy, George.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780742514805; 9780742514812
Subjects: Race awareness; Blacks -- Race identity; Whites -- Race identity; Race -- Philosophy
Description: White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the fourteen philosophers, who share a textual space of exploration, name blackness/whiteness, revealing significant political, cultural, and existential aspects of what it means to be black/white. Through the power of naming and theorizing whiteness and blackness, White on White/Black on Black dares to bring clarity and complexity to our understanding of race identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Waking up white and in Memphis -- Robert Bernasconi; title: White and cracking up -- Chris Cuomo; title: "Wigger" -- Crispin Sartwell; title: Unmasking through naming : toward an ethic and Africology of whiteness -- Greg Moses; title: Meditations on post-supremacist philosophy -- Anna Stubblefield; title: Racialization as an aesthetic production : what does the aesthetic do for whiteness and blackness and vice versa? -- Monique Roelofs; title: "Circulez! il n'y a rien à voir," or, "Seeing white" : from phenomenology to psychoanalysis and back -- Bettina G. Bergo; title: (Re)conceptualizing blackness and making race obsolescent -- Clarence Sholé Johnson; title: Blackness as an ethical trope : toward a post-Western assertion -- Molefi Kete Asante; title: Tongue smell color black -- Janine Jones; title: "Seeing blackness" from within the Manichean divide -- George Yancy; title: Blackness and the quest for authenticity -- Robert Birt; title: Act your age and not your color : blackness as material conditions, presumptive context, and social category -- John H. McClendon III; title: Knowing blackness, becoming blackness, valuing blackness-- Kal Alston.