White ignorance and complicit responsibility : transforming collective harm beyond the punishment paradigm

Author/Creator:: Boodman, Eva author
Publication/Creation:: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: White ignorance and complicit responsibility : transforming collective harm beyond the punishment paradigm / Eva Boodman
Series Titles:: Philosophy of race
Philosophy of race.

Subjects:: White people--Race identity--United States
Race awareness--United States
Racism--United States
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Responsibility--United States
Racism
United States--Race relations

Table of 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.
Summary:: "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 that keep racial capitalism in place"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: ix, 157 pages ; 24 cm.