Front Cover
Half-title
White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Note on language
Introduction
Epistemic reflections
1 Whiteness, time and space
A cultural note
An autoethnographic note
Time, knowing and remembering
Whiteness and temporality
Whiteness and white spaces
Whiteness and racial stratification
Mechanisms of reproduction
Social scripts
Group processes
Repetition compulsion
Summary and resistance
Notes
2 White gazes
Everyday performance
The white gaze as a white shield
A cultural note
An autoethnographic note
Another autoethnographic note
The white female gaze
Everyday performance
Summary and resistance
3 White envy
A cultural note
Everyday performance
A cultural note
A historical note
An autoethnographic note
Black jealousy
white envy?
The politics of envy
Summary and resistance
4 White sadism
"Look at you, you're enjoying it!"
Defining sadism
Everyday performance
Colonial discipline and cultural sadism
A cultural note
Everyday performance
Sadism, the social unconscious and the group matrix
Whiteness and ontological pain
Summary and resistance
5 White trauma
A cultural note
An ethnographic note
Whose trauma?
Everyday performance
White innocence, violence and 'basic assumptions'
Victimhood, trauma and resistance
Trauma: some analytic concepts
Collective trauma
Summary and resistance
6 White dissociation
Splitting and dissociation
White ignorance, white dissociation
Everyday performance
White paranoia
White psychosis
White fragility
White aversion
Dissociation and anti-racism
Summary and resistance
7 White shame
White narcissism, white shame
Everyday performance
Shame and 'location of disturbance'
A cultural note
False generosity
Shame, guilt and white tears
A cultural note
White pride, white shame
Shame and the scapegoating of 'racists'
Summary and resistance
8 White ambivalence
Conceptualising ambivalence
A cultural note
Racial ambivalence
Everyday performance
Whiteness, aversion and the fear of contact
White identity development
Everyday performance
White amnesia as ambivalence
An autoethnographic note
Ambivalence and anti-racism
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Termination
The Whiteness Readiness Model
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Engagement
Internalisation
Regression
Readiness as a repeated event
Proximal ambivalence
Summary and resistance
9 White complicity
A cultural note
An autoethnographic note
A basket full of bad apples?
Everyday performance
A cultural note
White silence, white silencing
White proximity, brown complicity