White Privilege

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