Feminists Talk Whiteness offers a multidimensional introduction to whiteness as an ideology and a system of institutional practices, exploring how and why whiteness is a feminist issue.
Readers will gain insights and strategies for action from the chapters and poems, which approach whiteness through multiple perspectives and disciplinary approaches. The contents are organized into sections on history, theory and self-reflection, and antiracist praxis. Each section includes suggested questions for writing or discussion, as well as varied activities—from quick research to community action.
Feminists Talk Whiteness is for college students, community groups, and book clubs studying whiteness and antiracism. It will work well as a main or companion text in courses in women’s, gender, and feminist studies, as well as other courses across the humanities and social sciences.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Edited by:
Leigh-Anne Francis,
Janet Gray
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781032480206
ISBN 10: 1032480203
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 30 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part I. Histories and Counterstories Introduction 1. Strategic white womanhood: Challenging white feminist perceptions of “Karen” 2. White Women’s Participation in the Attempted Genocide of Native American Peoples 3. White women as white supremacist political actors: From the suffragists to the Karens 4. “The good, the bad, and the indifferent”: The political pedagogy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 5. The unbearable whiteness of lesbian studies 6. bell hooks: Black indigeneity, ancestral memory, and lessons on resistance Blood Calls Questions, Activities, and Resources Part II. Theory and self-reflection Introduction 7. On white privilege and anesthesia: Why does Peggy McIntosh’s knapsack feel weightless? 8. Fear, loathing, and las whiteness: Whiteness as fearfulness 9. Academic survival: Troubling the tensions between race, gender, and class in a predominantly white academic institution 10. Colorism in the Latina community: The internalization of racialized sexism 11. Feminists talk whiteness: Disrupting the grip of white supremacy culture on feminist movement building 12. Beyond choice: A dialogue on the whiteness of liberal feminism and reimagining freedom beyond individual choice Amazing Grace (for the children of John Newton) My Body is a River What chou mean we, white girl, revisited Questions, Activities, and Resources Part III. Feminist antiracism praxis Introduction 13. From performing equity to loving equity: Combating whiteness in emerging allyship movements 14. The ally’s tools: Racialized power and privilege within antiracist praxis 15. Whiteness and indigeneity: Feminism as a settler colonial discourse 16. Teaching transgender studies: Experiential knowledge and race 17. Shame work: Reducing supremacy and the violence of white men 18. Like, share, tweet: Antiracist cyberactivism vs. performative slacktivism 19. Making mistakes: A conversation and i am sorry White me: A check list MIRANDA WAIVER FOR WHITE PEOPLE Questions, Activities and Resources
Leigh-Anne Francis is a Black queer associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and African American studies at The College of New Jersey. Her publications examine Black women and the carceral state, queer and trans people of color, and the continuum of subaltern resistive strategies in US history. Janet Gray is a white professor emerita of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The College of New Jersey. She has published on whiteness in nineteenth-century American women’s poetry and on the convergences of feminist, peace, and environmental studies.
