What White Looks Like
African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis: what does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience?

In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. What does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience? In this volume, Robert Birt asks if whites can 'live whiteness authentically'. Janine Jones examines what it means to be a "goodwill white." Joy James tells of beating her 'addiction' to white supremacy, while Arnold Farr writes on making whiteness visible in Western philosophy. What White Looks Like brings a badly needed critique and philosophically sophisticated perspective to a central issue of contemporary society.

Contributors Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness, George Yancy 1. Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness, Charles W. Mills 2. The Bad Faith of Whiteness, Robert E. Birt 3. The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans, Janine Jones 4. Deligitimizing the Normativity of 'Whiteness': A Critical Africana Philosophical Study of the Metaphoricity of 'Whiteness', Clevis Headley 5. A Foucauldian
(Genealogical) Reading Of Whiteness: The Production Of The Black Body/Self And The Racial Deformation. Of Pecola Breedlove In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, George Yancy 6. Whiteness Visible: Enlightenment Racism and the Structure of Racialized Consciousness, Arnold Farr 7. Rehabilitate Racial Whiteness?, Lucius T. Outlaw 8. Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness, Lewis Gordon 9. Whiteness and Africana Phenomenology, Paget Henry 10. On the Nature of Whiteness and the
Ontology of Race: Toward a Dialectical
Materialist Analysis, John H. McClendon 11. Silence and Sympathy: Dewey's Whiteness, Paul C. Taylor 12. Whiteness and Feminism: Deja vu Discourses, What's Next?, Blanche Radford Curry 13. The Academic Addict: Mainlining White Supremacy
(WS), Joy James