id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_g46xvbnkinaihkpbzl5xdwny4i Sonia Kruks The future of whiteness 2016 4 .pdf application/pdf 1737 98 57 Alcoff sets out to ask whether there could be 'a place in the rainbow' for whites: argue – so intrinsically tied to racism and white supremacy as to make this The history of whiteness, as Alcoff nicely exemplifies, is complex and far from Accordingly, she argues 'against the idea that white identity cannot adapt in positive ways to a loss of centrality [for] it is not at all clear that, without white supremacy, In addition to rejecting essentialist conceptions of race, Alcoff also criticizes those For social identities, including but not limited to race, carry whiteness may productively be lived in ways that are not intrinsically tied to racism. Alcoff concludes her book by telling the stories of two white men whose interests focus on the question of how whiteness could come to be lived more positively is combat white racism and to empower nonwhites. ./cache/work_g46xvbnkinaihkpbzl5xdwny4i.pdf ./txt/work_g46xvbnkinaihkpbzl5xdwny4i.txt