Published in 2006
264 pages
Shannon Sullivan is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte. She teaches and writes in the intersections of feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (2001), Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006), Good White People: The Problem with Middle Class White Anti-Racism (2014) and The Physiology of Sexist and Racist (2015). She is co-editor of several books including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007).
What is this book about?
“[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience.”
–Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race
Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and self searching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan’s theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern.
