White People and Black Lives Matter

Chapter 1: Getting my People

1.1         Whiteness and Self-Reflection

1.2       "We" White People: On the Possibility of Collective Identity

1.3       The Hate that we see Might be our Own: Distinguishing Black Anger from White Hate

 

Chapter 2: Empathy and Racial Justice:  Redefining Impartiality in Response to Social Movements2.1       White Empathy and Black Lives Matter



2.2       Perspectives Against 'Just Empathy'

2.3       Managing Empathy Through Colorblindness

2.4       Empathy and Racial Justice: A Different Idea of Impartiality

 

Chapter 3: How White People Refuse to Understand Black Mourning

3.1       White Responses to Black-led Political Mourning

3.2       Conservative Responses to Black Mourning: Militarization, Gas-lighting, Tone-policing

3.3       Liberal Responses to Black Mourning: Voyeurism and Appropriation

3.4       Recognizing Agency, Giving up the Idealized Victim

 

3.5       Mourning's Potential: Undoing the Political Order in Antigone and the Book of Jeremiah

 

Chapter 4: Respecting Black Lives Matter as Arendtian Political Action

4.1       How Political Action is Different from Scientific Inquiry

4.2       Political Action as Unprecedented

4.3       Political Action as Revelatory

Johanna C. Luttrell is Instructional Assistant Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston, USA.