Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2005
Publication Title
The Philosophical Forum
Volume
36
Issue
3
Abstract
The article re-examines racial and ethnic identity within the context of pedagogical attempts to instill a positive white identity in white students who are conscious of the history of white racism and white privilege. The paper draws heavily from whiteness studies and developmental cognitive science in arguing (against Henry Giroux and Stuart Hall) that a positive notion of white identity, however postmodern its construction, is an oxymoron, since whiteness designates less a cultural/ethnic ethos and meaningful way of life than a pathological structure of privilege and narrowminded cognitive habitus.
Recommended Citation
Ingram, David. Toward a Cleaner Whiteness: New Racial Identities. The Philosophical Forum, 36, 3: , 2005. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x
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Comments
Author Posting. © Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Wiley-Blackwell for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Philosophical Forum, Volume 36, Issue 3, Fall 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x.