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. 

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

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Facing the dragon
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part I|110 pages

Histories and counterstories

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chapter 1|15 pages

Strategic white womanhood

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Challenging white feminist perceptions of “Karen”
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chapter 3|15 pages

White women as white supremacist political actors

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From the suffragists to the Karens
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chapter 4|17 pages

“The good, the bad, and the indifferent”

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The political pedagogy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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chapter 6|17 pages

Bell Hooks

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Black indigeneity, ancestral memory, and lessons on resistance
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La sangre llama

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part II|102 pages

Theory and self-reflection

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chapter 7|13 pages

On white privilege and anesthesia

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Why does Peggy McIntosh's knapsack feel weightless?
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chapter 8|16 pages

Fear, loathing, and las whiteness

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Whiteness as fearfulness
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chapter 9|14 pages

Academic survival

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Troubling the tensions between race, gender, and class in a predominantly white academic institution
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chapter 10|12 pages

Colorism in the Latina community

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The internalization of racialized sexism
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chapter 11|15 pages

Feminists talk whiteness

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Disrupting the grip of white supremacy culture on feminist movement building
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chapter 12|18 pages

Beyond choice

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A dialogue on the whiteness of liberal feminism and reimagining freedom beyond individual choice
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My body is a river

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part III|107 pages

Feminist antiracism praxis

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chapter 13|14 pages

From performing equity to loving equity

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Combating whiteness in emerging allyship movements
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chapter 14|15 pages

The ally's tools

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Racialized power and privilege within the antiracist praxis
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chapter 15|13 pages

Whiteness and indigeneity

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Feminism as a settler colonial discourse
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chapter 16|12 pages

Teaching transgender studies

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Experiential knowledge and race
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chapter 17|16 pages

Shame work

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Reducing supremacy and the violence of white men
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chapter 18|11 pages

Like, share, tweet

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Anti-racist cyberactivism vs. performative slacktivism
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chapter 19|12 pages

Making mistakes

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A conversation
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And i am sorry

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White me

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A check list
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Miranda Waiver for white people

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