In the chapter, “Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance”, George Yancy describes ways in which white antiracists, against their best intentions, may be “ambushed” by their own whiteness and fail to be truly antiracist.
- Give some examples of such “ambush” (Yancy, pp. 229-230 [paragraphs 3 + 1-3], 232 [paragraph 2], 234-5 [paragraphs 1-2 + 1-2], 236 [paragraph 1], 237 [paragraph 2])
- Why does Yancy think that being a white antiracist is never completely in one’s control (p. 231 [paragraph 2])
- Why does Yancy think that dismantling whiteness is a continuous project (Yancy, p. 232 [paragraph 3]?
- Why does he think that there must be a call “to disarticulate whiteness from those juridico-political, economic, institutional, aesthetic, and other locations that will resist disarticulation to ensure the maintenance of white power” (Yancy, pp. 238 [paragraph 2], 242 [paragraph 2])?
- Why does Yancy think that white antiracists should be thankful for being “ambushed” (p. 241 [paragraph 1])?