Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

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FOREWORD 1. Yancy’s words implied that, in having no nonracist core, the students were exactly like onions. INTRODuCTION 1. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam markmann (new York: Grove press, 1967), 112. 2. ibid., 114. 3. robert Gooding-Williams, “Look, a negro!” in Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising, ed. robert Gooding-Williams (new York: routledge, 1993), 165. 4. Judith Butler, “endangered/endangering: schematic racism and White paranoia ,” in Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising, ed. robert Gooding-Williams (new York: routledge, 1993), 18. 5. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 113. 6. ibid., 191. 7. For more on this subject, see Chapter 1. 8. mike hill, After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (new York: new York University press, 2004), 215. 9. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 109. 10. ibid., 116. 11. ibid. 12. Whites hear names, bear marks, have histories, but such burdens characteristically are not racialized. 13. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 177. 14. ibid., 116. notes 178 notes to the introduction 15. Butler, “endangered/endangering,” 18. 16. see drew Griffin and scott Bronstein, “video shows White Teens driving over, Killing Black man, says da,” Cnn, august 8, 2011, available at http:// www.cnn.com/2011/Crime/08/06/mississippi.hate.crime/index.html?hpt=hp_ p1&iref=ns1. 17. Butler, “endangered/endangering,” 20. 18. James Baldwin, clip from Take This Hammer, available at http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=L0L5fcia6aU. Baldwin made these remarks in 1963 while reflecting on racial inequality in the United states. 19. Geneva smitherman, Black Talk: Woods and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner (Boston: houghton mifflin, 1994), 133. 20. Butler, “endangered/endangering,” 17. 21. in personal correspondence, Floyd hayes wonders whether whites, caught in the clutches of whiteness, are amenable to the “gift” that i seek to offer them. my sense is that part of the logic of gift giving is that the recipient is under no obligation to accept the gift. This, it seems to me, raises larger questions regarding public policy and legislation that protect people of color from the hegemony of whiteness. 22. Bell hooks, Killing Rage, Ending Racism (new York: henry holt, 1995), 194. 23. W.e.B. du Bois, “The souls of White Folk,” in W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader, ed. david Levering Lewis (new York: henry holt, 1995), 465. 24. steve martinot, The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization (philadelphia: Temple University press, 2010), 62. 25. sara ahmed, “declarations of Whiteness: The non-performativity of antiracism ,” borderlands e-journal 3, no. 2 (2004), available at http://www.borderlands .net.au/vol3no2_2004/ahmed_declarations.htm. 26. George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (philadelphia: Temple University press, 1998), 1. 27. ibid. 28. richard dyer, White (new York: routledge, 1997), 3. 29. Terrance macmullan, Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction (Bloomington: indiana University press, 2009), 142. 30. ahmed, “declarations of Whiteness.” 31. ibid. 32. ibid. 33. Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, vii. 34. Bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston: south end press, 1992), 167–168. 35. Crispin sartwell, Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1998), 9. 36. supreme Court Justice sonia sotomayor, then an appeals court judge, delivered a speech in 2001 arguing that legal judgments are influenced by one’s ethnicity and gender. she stated, “i would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Charlie savage, “a Judge’s view of Judging is on the record,” New York Times, may 14, 2009, available at http://www.nytimes .com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html. notes to Chapter 1 179 37. du Bois, “The souls of White Folk,” 453. 38. ibid. 39. see Chapter 5 regarding a project that i assigned my students that involved keeping a journal of their daily experiences of race/racism. 40. ahmed, “declarations of Whiteness.” 41. Zeus Leonardo and ronald K. porter, “pedagogy of Fear: Toward a Fanonian Theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue,” Race Ethnicity and Education 13, no. 2 (July 2010): 150. 42. ibid. 43. richard Wright, “The man Who Went to Chicago,” in Eight Men, introduction by paul Gilroy (new York: harper perennial, 1996), 214. 44. dyer, White, 14. 45. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 109. 46. ibid...