Habits of whiteness : a pragmatist reconstruction / Terrance MacMullan.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American philosophy.
Main Author: MacMullan, Terrance
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:American philosophy.
Subjects:
White people > Race identity > United States > History.
Race awareness > United States > History.
Physical Description:x, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "¡¿Que Haces Gringuito?!"
  • History
  • Bacon's rebellion and the advent of whiteness
  • The draft riots of 1863 and the defense of white privilege
  • Pragmatist tools
  • John Dewey and inquiry
  • Race as Deweyan habit
  • Du Bois and the gift of race
  • Du Bois's critique of whiteness
  • Contemporary problems and debates
  • Whiteness in post-civil rights America
  • Contemporary debates on whiteness
  • Reconstructing whiteness
  • Habits of whiteness
  • Whiteness reconstructed
  • Conclusion: Gifts beyond the pale.