Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination

Katie A.

This factsheet critically names and discusses whiteness as terror by exploring Black knowledge on whiteness. The factsheet calls for collective work to be done to unsettle whiteness and offers points of praxis for white folks to hold themselves accountable to anti-racist work.

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References

Hooks, B. (1997). Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination. Displacing Whiteness. Duke University Press. DOI: 10.1215/978082270-006

Source Authors

Bell Hooks

Keywords

'Race' as a Political Tool, Accountability & Responsibility, Action Beyond Apologies, Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Racism, Challenging Whiteness, Colorblindness, Confronting Prejudice, Constructing 'Race', Critical Race Theory, Dismantle Structural Racism, Future Possibilities, Historicizing Whiteness, Identity, Interrupting Assumptions, Language and Power, Memory and Power, Plurality of Experiences, Representations and Power, Resistant Knowledge, Slavery, Social Ideas and Power, Unlearning and Relearning, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Themes

Activism, History, Theory