Habits of whiteness
Subtitle: a pragmatist reconstruction
By: Terrance MacMullan.
Series: American philosophy
Publisher: Bloomington
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Indiana University, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780253318138; 9780253220714
Subjects: Whites -- Race identity -- United States -- History; Race awareness -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bacon's rebellion and the advent of whiteness; title: The draft riots of 1863 and the defense of white privilege; title: Pragmatist tools; title: John Dewey and inquiry; title: Race as Deweyan habit; title: Du Bois and the gift of race; title: Du Bois's critique of whiteness; title: Contemporary problems and debates; title: Whiteness in post-civil rights America; title: Contemporary debates on whiteness; title: Reconstructing whiteness; title: Habits of whiteness; title: Whiteness reconstructed; title: Conclusion: gifts beyond the pale.