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Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy

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Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity entails, and to offer recommendations for how white complicity can be taught. The book highlights how well-intentioned white people who might even consider themselves as paragons of antiracism might be unwittingly sustaining an unjust system that they say they want to dismantle. What could it mean for white people 'to be good' when they can reproduce and maintain racist system even when, and especially when, they believe themselves to be good? In order to answer this question, Barbara Applebaum advocates a shift in our understanding of the subject, of language, and of moral responsibility. Based on these shifts a new notion of moral responsibility is articulated that is not focused on guilt and that can help white students understand and acknowledge their white complicity. Being White, Being Good introduces an approach to social justice pedagogy called 'white complicity pedagogy.' The practical and pedagogical implications of this approach are fleshed out by emphasizing the role of uncertainty, vulnerability, and vigilance. White students who acknowledge their complicity have an increased potential to develop alliance identities and to engage in genuine cross-racial dialogue. White complicity pedagogy promises to facilitate the type of listening on the part of white students so that they come open and willing to learn, and 'not just to say no.' Applebaum also conjectures that systemically marginalized students would be more likely and willing to invest energy and time, and be more willing to engage with the systemically privileged, when the latter acknowledge rather than deny their complicity. It is a central claim of the book that acknowledging complicity encourages a willingness to listen to, rather than dismiss, the struggles and experiences of the systemically marginalized.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0739144928
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0739144923
  3. Publisher
    Lexington Books
  4. Publication date
    July 21, 2011
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6.18 x 0.58 x 9.11 inches
  7. Print length
    230 pages
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By rigorously mapping the intricacies of white complicity vis-à-vis systemic racism, inspired by robust social justice concerns, and using white complicity pedagogy as her point of methodological embarkation, Barbara Applebaum, in Being White, Being Good, has profoundly troubled the waters of whiteness studies, identified its intrinsic limits, and forced a deeper and more honest self-reflexive posture on the part of its white practitioners to be cognizant (even as this is always already limited) of white moral self-glorification, white 'good intentions' and white self-cognitive sophistication―all forms of distancing strategies. Applebaum does all of this while simultaneously not shying away from offering a form of ethical responsibility that is fueled precisely through the recognition of the social ontology and ineluctability of racist complicity. This is racial theory and critical pedagogy born of fearless speech and fearless listening. -- George Yancy, professor of philosophy, Emory University

Applebaum has put together an impressive array of theoretical resources in this meticulously argued account of white complicity and its attendant pedagogical challenges. She intricately weaves together her analysis of poststructural subjectivity and agency with philosophical discussions of complicity to articulate a new form of moral responsibility no longer reliant on blame but robustly concerned with responsibility. -- Cris Mayo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Applebaum’s argument is ultimately a cautionary one, providing no doubt an important corrective to white social justice advocates who think they can somehow bracket or, even worse, move beyond their privilege. Applebaum makes this point extremely well. She also details a very thoughtful model for responsibility under complicity that offers some important broad guidelines for how we ought to think differently about our privilege, and about how we ought to teach about diversity issues. ― Journal of Philosophy of Education Published On: 2011-07-01

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Barbara Applebaum is associate professor of cultural foundations of education at Syracuse University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexington Books (July 21, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739144928
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0739144923
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.18 x 0.58 x 9.11 inches
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Josh8Soup
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Applebaum does amazing work.
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2020
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I am using this work as a foundation of my dissertation. I really don’t know where I would be without this important piece of work.
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Fnordz
1.0 out of 5 stars I think I finally understand white guilt.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2020
Barbara Applebaum wrote a book that purports to show how white people are complicit in "systemic racism" (the kind from "Critical Race Theory" that assumes all white people are racist and have created a system of oppression for all non-white people).

All white people are complicit if they don't stand up and smash this alleged system upon which this unfalsifiable and indefeasible trainwreck of a theory purports to expose, because it is our moral duty to do so, according to Applebaum, who proceeds to attempt to explain how well meaning white people who consider themselves good and even "anti-racist" (an oxymoron if there ever was one) are unwittingly assisting in this "systemic oppression" of [insert anyone who isn't a white cisgendered male].

Included are Applebaum's ideas on how to indoctrinate others to accept this insane ideology that seeks to, at its core, tear down society and "liberate the oppressed" into the Communist utopia that awaits if they could only be "woke" enough to see it!

Utter garbage. Stay away.
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Jim Thompson
1.0 out of 5 stars In which world do you want to live?
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2020
Ask yourself if you want to live in a world where women, people of color, and any gender persuasion have the best chance of being equal participants. If you think that's the right kind of world, thank a European, because they have been more successful than any other group in history at bringing that world into reality.

Violence and repression have been pervasive across every culture and every history. The Mexica were eating their neighbors by the tens of thousands before Europeans showed up. Africans were slaughtering and enslaving women and children long before Europeans showed up. Native americans were butchering conquered competitors long before Europeans showed up. So instead of fussing over "white complicity" in furthering "white privilege," maybe it's time to start thanking "white thinkers" for actually doing something effective to change the course of history toward equality...
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oT
1.0 out of 5 stars Unscientific
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2021
Whatever ones personal views may be it is a disgrace that Syracuse University would employ this author as a academic professor. This book deposits ideas that are simple anecdotal opinions based of off no scientific data and tries through the use of word salad to push them off as facts deliberately attempting to manipulate data to deceive its intended audience knowing full well that the audience it is targeting does not have a sophisticated understanding of statistical analysis or historical awareness. This person is either being deliberately deceitful for personal gain or has a ignorance of history to such a magnitude that it is a small form of miracle. Considering the auther has a PH.D I find the latter unlikely. If I could give it zero stars I would. It has no business in a place of higher education and the author should seek psychological intervention for her racist presuppositions and destructive methods of solutions to her paranoid delusions.
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RareReviewer
5.0 out of 5 stars I think I finally understand White people
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014
This book helped me understand that most white people aren't ignorant, but just have a different kind of knowledge that's based on ignoring racism. And that this is a very active thing that they do (even if it's unconscious).

It made me feel almost sorry for them. ..Even with all their privilege, they can't face what's right in front of them everyday.

They live in the matrix. I try everyday to unplug as many of them as I can.... but I fear Fox News is winning in creating a world where knowledge is not based in reality.

Anyways.... great book.
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Vaughn Cassidy
1.0 out of 5 stars Get the Grift…
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023
Understand this people, this sort of ideology keeps liberal white people in power. They doubt meritocracy because of their own position of privilege, not due to being White, but being born into a particular class of liberal elites that want to assuage their own guilt while offering an explanation as to why only THEY can fix reality. The projection here is blinding. Leftist, heal thy self!
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_Fyre_
1.0 out of 5 stars Postmodern rejection of reality
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022
This book tries to present Foucaultian ideology as fact, while refusing to consider any critical disagreement with its flawed thesis: that all white people are complicit in racism and born guilty of inherited privilege.
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