ABSTRACT
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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|110 pages
Histories and counterstories
chapter 2|22 pages
White women's participation in the attempted genocide of Native American peoples
chapter 3|15 pages
White women as white supremacist political actors
chapter 4|17 pages
“The good, the bad, and the indifferent”
part II|102 pages
Theory and self-reflection
chapter 7|13 pages
On white privilege and anesthesia
chapter 9|14 pages
Academic survival
chapter 11|15 pages
Feminists talk whiteness
chapter 12|18 pages
Beyond choice
part III|107 pages
Feminist antiracism praxis
