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<i>Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege</i> (review)

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (review) Shannon Sullivan Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 247pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21848-3 Jessica Wahman R ev e a l i ng Wh i t e n ess was written before Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, before his famous oratory on the complexities of race in America, and before the “ beer summit” held among Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and arresting police Sergeant James Crowley. As such, it is a decidedly prescient book. Obama’s campaign and subsequent election to the presidency has sparked ongoing debate bet ween those who continue to see evidence of racism in American society and others who believe that race can, should be, and indeed already has been transcended. In her book, Shannon Sullivan does not only take the side of the former, she ventures to explain how it is that a racist society can appear to itself to be nonracist, thus answering in advance the charge that a country with an African American president cannot possibly be one that privileges white people. By identifying a variety of racist attitudes and behaviors as unconscious habits, Sullivan provides an explanation for the stubborn perpetuation of these practices, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

<i>Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege</i> (review)

Wahman, Jessica.
philoSOPHIA , Volume 1 (2) – Jun 5, 2012
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Shannon Sullivan Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 247pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21848-3 Jessica Wahman R ev e a l i ng Wh i t e n ess was written before Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, before his famous oratory on the complexities of race in America, and before the “ beer summit” held among Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and arresting police Sergeant James Crowley. As such, it is a decidedly prescient book. Obama’s campaign and subsequent election to the presidency has sparked ongoing debate bet ween those who continue to see evidence of racism in American society and others who believe that race can, should be, and indeed already has been transcended. In her book, Shannon Sullivan does not only take the side of the former, she ventures to explain how it is that a racist society can appear to itself to be nonracist, thus answering in advance the charge that a country with an African American president cannot possibly be one that privileges white people. By identifying a variety of racist attitudes and behaviors as unconscious habits, Sullivan provides an explanation for the stubborn perpetuation of these practices,

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Published: Jun 5, 2012

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