White self-criticality beyond anti-racism: how does it feel to be a white problem?

"White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a 'good white' is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive."--Publisher's description

Flipping the script, and still a problem: staying in the anxiety of being a problem / Barbara Applebaum -- Feeling white, feeling good: "antiracist" white sensibilities / Karen Teel -- "White talk" as a barrier to understanding the problem with whiteness / Alison Bailey -- Unforgetting as a collective tactic / Alexis Shotwell -- On not making a labor of it: relationality and the problem of whiteness / Crista Lebens -- "You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me": the willed ignorance and wishful innocence of white America / Robert Jensen -- Humility and whiteness: "How did I look without seeing, hear without listening?" / Rebecca Aanerud -- I speak for my people: a racial manifesto / Crispin Sartwell -- Being a white problem and feeling it / Bridget M. Newell -- Keeping the strange unfamiliar: the racial privilege of dismantling whiteness / Nancy McHugh -- Cornered by whiteness: on being a white problem / David S. Owen -- Whiteness, democracy, and the hegemonic mind / Steve Martinot -- Am I the small axe or the big tree? / Steve Garner -- Contort yourself: music, whiteness, and the politics of disorientation / Robin James.