Robert Paul Wolff Autobiography of an Ex-White Man (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Autobiography of an Ex-White ManCondition: NewSubtitle: Learning a New Master Narrative for AmericaISBN-10: 1580463134EAN: 9781580463133ISBN: 9781580463133Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/02/2009Description: An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience.Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and his experiences in the Department with his new colleagues, all of whom had come to Academia from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Wolff discovered that the apparently simple act of moving across campus to a new Department in a new building worked a startling change in the way he saw himself, his university, and his country. Reading as widely as possible to bring himself up to speed in his new field of academic responsibility, Wolff realized after a bit that his picture of American history and culture was undergoing an irreversible metamorphosis. America, he realized, has from its inception been a land both of Freedom and of Bondage -- Freedom for the few, and then forthose who are White, Bondage at first for the many, and then for those who are not White. Slavery is thus not an aberration, an accident, a Peculiar Institution -- it is the essence and core of the American experience. Wolff's optimistic outlook leads him to express the hope that acknowledging the realities of America's racial history and present will begin to tear down the formidable barrier to change. He sees this refashioning of the American story as a first step toward the crafting of a truly liberatory project. Robert Paul Wolff is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of numerous books, including Introductory Philosophy and In Defense of Anarchism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 222mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Robert Paul WolffGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesItem Weight: 238gRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Autobiography of an Ex-White Man

Title: Autobiography of an Ex-White Man

Subtitle: Learning a New Master Narrative for America

ISBN-10: 1580463134

EAN: 9781580463133

ISBN: 9781580463133

Release Date: 01/02/2009

Release Year: 2009

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Social Sciences

Number of Pages: 150 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Autobiography of an Ex-White Man : Learning a New Master Narrative for America

Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press

Item Height: 0.4 in

Subject: Philosophers, Modern / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History & Surveys / Modern, Educators, Historical, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Publication Year: 2009

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 8.4 Oz

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History

Author: Robert Paul Wolff

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback