In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, "What White Looks Like" takes a unique approach to the subject by collecting the ideas of African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issues 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 central issue of contemporary society.

George Yancy holds the McCracken Fellowship in Africaana Studies at New York University. He has edited three previous books, including African-American Philosophers:17 Conversations (Routledge, 1998), Cornel West: ACritical Reader (2001), and The Philosophical i: PersonalReflections on Life in Philosophy (2002).

AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness: George Yancy1. Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness: Charles W. Mills 2. The Bad Faith of Whiteness: Robert E. Birt3. The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites for African Americans: Janine Jones 4. Delegitimizing 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, Jr. 8. Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness: Lewis R. Gordon 9. Whiteness and Africana Phenomenology: Paget Henry10. On the Nature of Whiteness and the Ontology of Race: Toward a Dialectical Materialist Analysis: John H. McClendon III 11. Silence and Sympathy: Dewey's Whiteness: Paul C. Taylor 12. Whiteness and Feminism: Déjá vu Discourses, What's Next?: Blanche Radford Curry 13. Mainlining (& Kicking) White Supremacy (WS): Joy James