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The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 25 Nov 2021 01:41:19
The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

Alison Bailey Illinois State University, "The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance "
English | ISBN: 1793604495 | 2021 | 202 pages | PDF | 5 MB

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what privilege does
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