White ignorance and complicit responsibility : transforming collective harm beyond the punishment paradigm / Eva Boodman.

"White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Philosophy of race.
Main Author: Boodman, Eva (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Series:Philosophy of race.
Subjects:
White people > Race identity > United States.
Race awareness > United States.
Racism > United States.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Responsibility > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Ignorance.
Responsabilité.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
Race awareness.
Race relations.
Racism.
Responsibility.
White people > Race identity.
United States.
Physical Description:ix, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The contradictions and possibilities of white ignorance
  • White ignorance is structural
  • Declarations and absolutions : moral paradoxes of white ignorance
  • Punitive whiteness : affective economies of white guilt and shame
  • Complicit responsibility and transformative whiteness
  • Conclusion: Against white success.