ABSTRACT
CAN A WHITE PERSON BE authentic? Or must his whiteness condemn him inexorably to the prisons of bad faith? Of course, our primary concern is not with “physical” whiteness or skin color. Rather, our concern is with a structure of values, a worldview and way of life. Whiteness is a chosen (though socially conditioned) way of being-in-theworld. But can one live whiteness authentically?
