Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice PedagogyContemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity entails, and to offer recommendations for how white complicity can be taught. The book highlights how well-intentioned white people who might even consider themselves as paragons of antiracism might be unwittingly sustaining an unjust system that they say they want to dismantle. What could it mean for white people 'to be good' when they can reproduce and maintain racist system even when, and especially when, they believe themselves to be good? In order to answer this question, Barbara Applebaum advocates a shift in our understanding of the subject, of language, and of moral responsibility. Based on these shifts a new notion of moral responsibility is articulated that is not focused on guilt and that can help white students understand and acknowledge their white complicity. Being White, Being Good introduces an approach to social justice pedagogy called 'white complicity pedagogy.' The practical and pedagogical implications of this approach are fleshed out by emphasizing the role of uncertainty, vulnerability, and vigilance. White students who acknowledge their complicity have an increased potential to develop alliance identities and to engage in genuine cross-racial dialogue. White complicity pedagogy promises to facilitate the type of listening on the part of white students so that they come open and willing to learn, and 'not just to say no.' Applebaum also conjectures that systemically marginalized students would be more likely and willing to invest energy and time, and be more willing to engage with the systemically privileged, when the latter acknowledge rather than deny their complicity. It is a central claim of the book that acknowledging complicity encourages a willingness to listen to, rather than dismiss, the struggles and experiences of the systemically marginalized. |
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Another race baiting load of propaganda intended to attack white people.
Why is it ok for White people to be openly discriminated against and talked about in this way? We all know if the roles were reversed and it was a white person talking about Barbara Applebaum's Jewish ethnicity that it would ensue a massive uproar and most likely attempted prosecutions.
Contents
Ch01 Introduction | 1 |
Ch02 White Ignorance and Denials of Complicity | 27 |
Ch03 The Subject of White Complicity | 53 |
Ch04 The Epistemology of Complicity | 91 |
Ch05 Moral Responsibility and Complicity in Philosophical Scholarship | 119 |
Ch06 Rearticulating White Moral Responsibility | 155 |
Ch07 White Complicity Pedagogy | 179 |
| 203 | |
| 219 | |
About the Author | 221 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy |
| Author | Barbara Applebaum |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0739144936, 9780739144930 |
| Length | 230 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Social Science / Discrimination Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General Social Science / Minority Studies Social Science / Sociology / General |
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