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In "The Souls of Black Folks," W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In "The Heart of Whiteness," Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem.
While some whites would like to think that we have reached "the end of racism" in the United States, and others would like to celebrate diversity but are oblivious to the political, economic, and social consequences of a nation-and their sense of self-founded on a system of white supremacy, Jensen proposes a different approach. He sets his sights not only on the racism that can't be hidden, but also on the liberal platitudes that sometimes conceal the depths of that racism in "polite society."
"The Heart of Whiteness" offers an honest and rigorous exploration of what Jensen refers to as the depraved nature of whiteness in... [More...] [Edit review] [Delete review]