Feminists Talk Whiteness

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58302-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Feminists Talk Whiteness offers a multidimensional introduction to whiteness as an ideology and a system of institutional practices, exploring how and why whiteness is a feminist issue.

Readers will gain insights and strategies for action from the chapters and poems, which approach whiteness through multiple perspectives and disciplinary approaches. The contents are organized into sections on history, theory and self-reflection, and antiracist praxis. Each section includes suggested questions for writing or discussion, as well as varied activities—from quick research to community action.

Feminists Talk Whiteness is for college students, community groups, and book clubs studying whiteness and antiracism. It will work well as a main or companion text in courses in women’s, gender, and feminist studies, as well as other courses across the humanities and social sciences.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francis, Leigh-Anne

Gray, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Facing the dragon

Leigh-Anne Francis and Janet Gray



PART I

Histories and counterstories 17

1 Strategic white womanhood: Challenging white feminist perceptions of “Karen”

Ruby Hamad

2 White women’s participation in the attempted genocide of Native American peoples

Karla J. Strand

3 White women as white supremacist political actors: From the suffragists to the Karens

Christina Cavener

4 “The good, the bad, and the indifferent”: The political pedagogy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Leslie K. Dunlap

5 The unbearable whiteness of lesbian studies

Stephanie Andrea Allen

6 bell hooks: Black indigeneity, ancestral memory, and lessons on resistance

Reanae McNeal

Poem: La sangre llama

Denise Zubizarreta

Questions, activities, and resources



PART II

Theory and self-reflection

7 On white privilege and anesthesia: Why does Peggy McIntosh’s knapsack feel weightless?

Alison Bailey

8 Fear, loathing, and las whiteness: Whiteness as fearfulness

Andrea Dionne Warmack

9 Academic survival: Troubling the tensions between race, gender, and class in a predominantly white academic institution

Carolyn Tinglin

10 Colorism in the Latina community: The internalization of racialized sexism

Melissa K. Ochoa

11 Feminists talk whiteness: Disrupting the grip of white supremacy culture on feminist movement building

Ann Russo

12 Beyond choice: A dialogue on the whiteness of liberal feminism and reimagining freedom beyond individual choice

Houda Ali and Britt Munro

Poem: Amazing Grace (For the children of John Newton)

Liseli A. Fitzpatrick

Poem: My body is a river

Rachel O’Hanlon-odriguez

Poem: What chou mean we, white girl, revisited

Becky Thompson

Questions, activities, and resources



PART III

Feminist antiracism praxis 229

13 From performing equity to loving equity: Combating whiteness in emerging allyship movements

Meena Mangat

14 The ally’s tools: Racialized power and privilege within the antiracist praxis

Samantha L. Vandermeade

15 Whiteness and indigeneity: Feminism as a settler colonial discourse

Ruth Alminas and Cory Pillen

16 Teaching transgender studies: Experiential knowledge and race

Dana T. Ahern

17 Shame work: Reducing supremacy and the violence of white men

Cameron Rasmussen

18 Like, share, tweet: Anti-racist cyberactivism vs. performative slacktivism

Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham

19 Making mistakes: A conversation

Peggy Diggs and Lucy R. Lippard

Poem: and i am sorry

Anaïs Peterson

Poem: White me: A check list

Ivy T. Schweitzer

Poem: Miranda Waiver for white people

Becky Thompson

Questions, activities, and resources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh-Anne Francis is a Black queer associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and African American studies at The College of New Jersey. Her publications examine Black women and the carceral state, queer and trans people of color, and the continuum of subaltern resistive strategies in US history.

Janet Gray is a white professor emerita of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The College of New Jersey. She has published on whiteness in nineteenth-century American women’s poetry and on the convergences of feminist, peace, and environmental studies.