White Thinking Profound The Sunday Times

Binding: Paperback
Description: Profound The Sunday Times Truly Significant The Independent Ambitious The Conversation What does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour is it also a way of thinking? If so how did it come about and why? In this book drawing on history personal experience and activist literature the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white thinking how it divides us and how it has become ubiquitous and accepted without challenge. He demonstrates how centuries of white bias and denial justified slavery and colonialism and have reinforced norms and structures of oppression limiting the roles and horizons of both non - whites and whites alike. Crucially while White Thinking is a critique of ingrained structural inequities it calls for an inclusive approach to solving the problem and aims to raise awareness and imagine a new world in which all of humanity is given equal weight. White Thinking patiently demonstrates how European societies through their creation of Black people also invented White people. Le Monde Strikes another blow in his battle against racial stereotypes. La Vie This book is not interested in repentance or white guilt but in the ability to face up to historical reality and to the fact that others might have a very different understanding of that history. Revue des deux mondes He is almost unique amongst retired sportspeople having left his old life behind him in the dressing room. Today the activist has replaced the footballer. Lib ration This wonderful book is as thoughtful as it is brave. Paul Gilroy FRSL FB a founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London
Title: White Thinking Profound The Sunday Times
Author(s): Thuram Lilian
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781915054418
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2022
Category: Social Discrimination & Inequality