White Out
Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- Advance Praise
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction: The White Architecture of the Mind
- White Out
- Social Construction
- Implicit Bias
- Dominance Beyond Whiteness
- Higher Learning
- Volume 1 and Beyond
- Notes
- Chapter Two White Pain: I Hurt Too
- Empathy and Solidarity
- White-Upping the Other
- Emotional Appropriation
- Injustice versus Systemic Injustice
- Black Lives Matter? All Lives Matter!
- A Way Forward
- Notes
- Chapter Three Whitefluenza: How Privilege Is an Epidemic with No Known Cure
- Introduction and Epidemiology
- Endowed Privilege
- Admit Your White Privilege
- Shedding Whiteness
- Confronting Disease
- Notes
- Chapter Four White 22: White If You Do, White If You Don’t
- Straight White Male
- When the Desire to Help Hurts
- When to Sit Down—The Speech Heard ‘Round the Internet
- Notes
- Chapter Five Whitrogressions
- Now I’m the Victim
- Microagressions
- Outbreeding the Trash
- The Problem with Caucasian
- The N[word] for White People
- Becky and Shaniqua
- A Way Forward
- Notes
- Chapter Six Angry White Men: Making America White Again
- “Angry White Guys…”
- Building Walls
- White Occupiers and White Student Unions
- White Christmas
- “I Don’t Know…”
- A Way Forward
- Notes
- Chapter Seven White Pilgrims at Thanksgiving
- Whites Are the New Slaves
- Lighthearted Racism
- Affirmative Action
- But Black People Are Intimidating
- Be Ye Not Unequally Yoked
- “What about Black on Black Crime?”
- A Way Forward
- 1. Know Where You stand and what you want
- 2. Be open to possibilities
- 3. Learn what healthy dialogue looks like
- 4. Be able to separate people from their positions
- Conclusion
- Note
- Chapter Eight Good White Friends
- Whiteness
- White Identity Development
- Racial Justice Alliances
- Critical Race Theory
- The Study
- Activators, Awakening, and Awareness
- Alliances
- Advocacy
- Space for White Identity Formation
- Cycle of Critical Consciousness
- Notes
- Chapter Nine Conclusion: A Way Forward
- Notes
- Definitions
- Index
Christopher S. Collins and Alexander Jun
White Out
Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age
PETER LANG
New York • Bern • Frankfurt • Berlin
Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Collins, Christopher S., author. | Jun, Alexander, author.
Title: White out: understanding White privilege and dominance in the modern age / Christopher S. Collins, Alexander Jun.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016045992 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3541-5 (paperback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4027-3 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-4331-4028-0 (epub)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4029-7 (mobi) | DOI 10.3726/b10660
Subjects: LCSH: Whites—Race identity—United States.
Racism—United States. | Social stratification—United States.
Classification: LCC E184.A1 C538 2017 | DDC 305.800973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045992
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About the author
Christopher S. Collins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and studies the function of higher education in diverse contexts. He is White.
Alexander Jun is a TED speaker and author of From Here to University: Access, Mobility, and Resilience Among Urban Latino Youth. He is Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (Rossier School of Education).
About the book
Colleges across the country, and the nation as a whole continue to be divided along racial lines. White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age is about the role of Whiteness and a defense of White dominance in an increasingly diverse society. Whiteness is socially constructed, just as race is undoubtedly a social construct, documented through various periods in history. This book proposes that White Out is a learned habit that serves to defend White dominance in a multicultural age. White Out is a strategy that covers systems, dispositions, and actions that cannot cover the full indentation or impact. However, the action of blotting, either intentional or unintentional, serves to obscure experiences of people of color in lieu of a competing definition of reality. The authors introduce the White Architecture of the Mind as a metaphor highlighting the mind as a collection of walls, doors, windows, and pathways that influence individuals to react based on a systemic logic that was socially constructed reason. White Out, a byproduct of a White architecture of the mind, is a set of individual actions, choices, behaviors, and attitudes that are guided by a system that predisposes these attitudes and perpetuates privilege for core members of a dominant majority. The often-unconscious purpose in denying privilege and articulating colorblind ideology is to support a larger system and view of reality. The concepts covered in this volume include: White Pain, Whitefluenza (privilege as a virus), White 22 (White if you do, White if you don’t), Whitrogressions, Angry White Men, White Pilgrims, and Good White Friends.
Advance Praise for
White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 124
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433140273
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433140280
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433140297
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433135415
- DOI
- 10.3726/b10660
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2017 (March)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2017. XVI, 124 pp., 5 b/w ill.
