The Promise of Whiteness
Its Past and Its Future- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
During this difficult time in our nation’s history, with the focus on “racial reckoning”, it is crucial that Americans understand when and how our “race-based hierarchy” came to be invented. The Promise of Whiteness: Its Past and Its Future explores the psycho-social impact of the promise of “whiteness” upon the past and present-day race relations in the United States. The “promise of whiteness”—which includes the “place”, “privilege” or advantages of whiteness, the “power” bestowed by whiteness, and the “protection” from punishment for violence toward blacks—is examined. Crucial to the book’s concept is a discussion of the psychological needs met by whiteness and the needs, fears, anxieties, and dissonance produced as well. Finally, the book questions if the “promise of whiteness” is still viable in America as it has evolved into a multiracial society, and recommends that Americans, as a nation, commit to an equal society for all members regardless of race or social class. This book expands on several chapters previously published in A Time for Change: How White Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans.
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- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-6355-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-6357-4
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 88
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Table of contents
- Dedication No access
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter 1: The Creation of the Racial Hierarchy No access
- Chapter 2: The Promise of Whiteness No access
- Chapter 3: The Psychological Power of Whiteness No access
- Chapter 4: Racially-Induced Dissonance No access
- Chapter 5: The Violation of the Promise No access
- Chapter 6: “It Must Not Be Again” No access
- Chapter 7: The Betrayal of the Promise No access
- Chapter 8: The Diminishing Power of Whiteness No access
- Chapter 9: A Changing America: Impact on the Promise No access
- Chapter 10: America at the Crossroads No access
- Conclusion: Healing the Wounds of Mythology No access
- The Mythology No access
- The Expectations of “Whiteness” No access
- Conclusion No access
- The Core Expectations of White Place No access
- The Core Expectations of White Privilege No access
- The Core Expectations of White Power No access
- The Core Expectations of the Protection of Whiteness No access
- Expected Demonstration of Black Inferiority: Accommodation No access
- Lynching No access
- Conclusion No access
- Identity No access
- Esteem Needs No access
- Racially-Induced Emotional Needs No access
- Needs Related to Transgenerational Trauma No access
- Displacement No access
- Racially-Induced Needs No access
- Racially-Induced Fears No access
- Conclusion No access
- Stage I: Conflict/Confusion No access
- Stage II: Comparison No access
- Stage III: Emotional Response No access
- Stage IV: Restoration of Identity/Esteem No access
- The Impact of Racially Conditioned Beliefs in Responding to Racially-Induced Dissonance No access
- Conclusion No access
- The Ocoee Massacre: November 2, 1920 No access
- Elaine, Arkansas Massacre No access
- Conclusion No access
- The Massacre No access
- Why Did Greenwood Have to Be Destroyed? No access
- Conclusion No access
- Political Power No access
- Economic Power No access
- The Betrayals of White Supremacy No access
- The White Declaration of Independence No access
- Wilmington, 1898 and Washington, January 6, 2021 No access
- Victimhood No access
- Despair No access
- Class Status and the Promise No access
- Violations of Power No access
- Violations of Protection No access
- Conclusion No access
- White Fears No access
- Conclusion No access
- Why must the mythology of white superiority be refuted and renounced? No access
- Healing the Wounds of Mythology No access
- Steps to Releasing the Mythical Self No access
- Conclusion No access
- Bibliography No access Pages 83 - 86
- About the Author No access Pages 87 - 88
