The bad faith of whiteness

What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 55-64

  Birt, Robert E ^a  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203499719     Document Type: Chapter

References (23)

1. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (New York: Pocket Books, 1956), p. 84.
2. My reflections here are informed by Robert V. Stone's " Sartre on Bad Faith and Authenticity" in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp, (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1981), pp. 246-56.
3. Stone, " Sartre on Bad Faith," p. 246. Emphasis is mine.
4. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, p. 90.
5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1957), p. 23.
6. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, p. 60.
7. Thomas Martin, Oppression and the Human Condition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 1-21. See especially chapters 3 and 5 for an analysis of how oppressors can make use of either style of bad faith.
8. Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1991), p. 91.
9. Stone, " Sartre on Bad Faith," p. 248.
10. De Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity, pp. 81, 100.
11. Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (New York: Schocken Books, 1948), p. 28.
12. Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew, pp. 19, 27.
13. De Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity, p. 100.
14. Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995), p. 6.
15. Robert Westley, " White Normativity and the Rhetoric of Equal Protection," in, Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, ed. Lewis Gordon (New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 95.
16. Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, p. 6.
17. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), p. 317.
18. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 38.
19. Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (London: New Left Books, 1976), pp. 110-11.
20. Jean-Paul Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 569.
21. Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962), p. 179.
22. Westley, " White Normativity," p. 92.
23. Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, p. 2.