The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

by Alison Bailey

"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey's The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793604495
• ISBN13: 9781793604491
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"