Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being 1
1 An Analytic of Whiteness 39
2 White Exceptionalism 91
3 Double Consciousness 136
Conclusion: A Place in the Rainbow 178
References 205
Index 219
Linda Martin Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College
"A profound meditation on 'whiteness' – its past, its present, and
its possible future – by one of our leading scholars of race.
Deftly interweaving theory, autobiography, and her own personal
history of antiracist activism, Linda Martín Alcoff has produced
the most impressive philosophical exploration ever of this peculiar
'world-historical' social identity."
Charles Mills, Northwestern University "Against the contemporary
backdrop of changing racial demographics and widespread
condemnation of its relative power and privileges, Linda Alcoff
challenges us to think in more nuanced ways about whiteness. This
is a compellingly hopeful if sober analysis, offering renewed
possibility for a much more modest conception of whiteness, one
incorporating a commitment to racial justice as part of its raison
d'être. The Future of Whiteness is a book for our times."
David Goldberg, University of California, Irvine
"Written well and cogently argued, The Future of Whiteness will
spark debate in the field and will illuminate racial politics."
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