White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy, and Justice

Chapter 1: Getting my People

1.1 Whiteness and Self-Reflection

1.2 "We" White People: On the Possibility of Collective Identity

1.3 The Hate that we see Might be our Own: Distinguishing Black Anger from White Hate

Chapter 2: Empathy and Racial Justice: Redefining Impartiality in Response to Social Movements

2.1 White Empathy and Black Lives Matter

2.2 Perspectives Against 'Just Empathy'

2.3 Managing Empathy Through Colorblindness

2.4 Empathy and Racial Justice: A Different Idea of Impartiality

Chapter 3: How White People Refuse to Understand Black Mourning

3.1 White Responses to Black-led Political Mourning

3.2 Conservative Responses to Black Mourning: Militarization, Gas-lighting, Tone-policing

3.3 Liberal Responses to Black Mourning: Voyeurism and Appropriation

3.4 Recognizing Agency, Giving up the Idealized Victim

3.5 Mourning's Potential: Undoing the Political Order in Antigone and the Book of Jeremiah

Chapter 4: Respecting Black Lives Matter as Arendtian Political Action

4.1 How Political Action is Different from Scientific Inquiry

4.2 Political Action as Unprecedented

4.3 Political Action as Revelatory

4.4 Political Action as Knowledge-Creating

4.5 Arendt's Failure to Respect Black-Led Social Movements as Political Action

Chapter 5: Conclusion

5.1 Interrogating Allyship

5.2 Answering Objections to Identity Politics

5.3 White Feminism and Allyship

5.4 A Positive Prescription for Empathy?

Author: Johanna C. Luttrell
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/14/2019
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9783030224882
2019 Edition