White Thinking: Behind the mask of racial identity

by Lilian Thuram, David Murphy (Translator), Aedïn Nï Loingsigh (Translator), Cristina Johnston (Translator)

Overview

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 nonwhites 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915054418
Publisher:	Legend Press US
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lilian Thuram, born in Guadeloupe in 1972, had a prestigious international career in football for the French national team—World champion in 1998, European champion in 2000, World Cup finalist in 2006—and played for elite European clubs such as Juventus and Barcelona. In 2008, he created the Lilian Thuram Foundation to educate against racism, and he has become a high-profile activist himself. He is the author of various non-fiction books.

David Murphy is Head of School of Humanities at University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on various aspects of modern and contemporary Francophone West African culture and is currently writing a biography of the interwar Senegalese anti-colonial militant Lamine Senghor.
 
Aedín Ní Loingsigh is Lecturer in French at University of Stirling whose interests are centered on Sub-Saharan African literary cultures with a particular emphasis on postcolonial travel and translation practices and cultures.
 
Cristina Johnston is Senior Lecturer at University of Stirling and publishes books and papers on contemporary French cinema, transatlantic cinema and sexuality and citizenship in Republican France.
 

Table of Contents

Translators’ Note i Introduction 1 1 History 9 2 Being White 85 3 Becoming Human 154 Conclusion 195 Bibliography 203 Index of Names 209 Acknowledgements 212

Editorial Reviews

"Football is not the focus of White Thinking. But since the sport is a prominent part of society, it can influence and be influenced." —The Guardian

"It will provoke vital conversations." —CITY A.M.

"This wonderful book is as thoughtful as it is brave. Cutting against all conventional approaches to these difficult questions, White Thinking offers a model for the critical, political education our predicament requires.” —Paul Gilroy FRSL FBA, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College, London

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