Delegitimizing the normativity of "whiteness": A critical Africana philosophical study of the metaphoricity of "whiteness"

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 87-106

  Headley, Clevis ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203499719     Document Type: Chapter

References (27)

1. See Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark, " Segregation as a Factor in the Racial Identification of Negro Pre-School Children: A Preliminary Report," Journal of Experimental Education (spring 1940): 101-103;.
2. (same author) " Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children," chapter in Readings in Social Psychology, 3rd edition ed. Theodore Newcomb, Eugene Hartley, (New York: Henry Holt, 1958), pp. 602-611.
3. Lucius Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996): p. 77.
4. Mark Johnson, Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 61.
5. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
6. Theophus Smith, Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 4.
7. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 93.
8. See also Marion Young, " Is There a Women's World? Some Reflections on the Struggle for Our Bodies," in The Second Sex-Thirty Years Later: A Commemorative Conference on Feminist Theory (New York: Institute for the Humanities, 1979), p. 44.
9. Ian Hacking, 'Three Parables," in Philosophy in History, ed. Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
10. See Theodore Allen, The Invention of Whiteness (New York: Verso, 1994);.
11. Alexander Saxon, Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Verso,1990);.
12. Ian Haney Lopez, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (New York: New York University Press, 1996).
13. Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, ed. Richard Delgado (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).
14. Cheryl Harris, " Whiteness as Property," Harvard Law Review 106 (1993): 1715.
15. Kimerle Williams Crenshaw, " Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law," Harvard Law Review 101, no. 7 (1988): pp. 1331-1387.
16. Kelly Oliver, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), p. 117.
17. Robyn Wiegman, " Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity" Boundary 2 (fall 1999): 121.
18. George Lipsitz, Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), p. viii.
19. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), p. 11.
20. Oliver,Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, p. 19.
21. W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York: Atheneum, 1969).
22. See bell hooks, " Eating the Other," in bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston: South End Press, 1992), pp: 21-39.
23. David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991), p. 13.
24. See Alan David Freeman, " Legitimizing Racial Discrimination through Antidiscrimination Law: A Critical Review of Supreme Court Doctrine," Minnesota Law Review 62 (1978): pp. 1049-1119.
25. Lipsitz, Possessive Investment in Whiteness, p. 22.
26. Harris, 'Whiteness as Property," p. 1781.
27. Wiegman, " Whiteness Studies," p. 130.