{"product_id":"the-gratifications-of-whiteness-w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-enduring-rewards-of-anti-blackness-paperback","title":"The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElla Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a \"public and psychological wage,\" offering valuable social standing to even the poorest of whites. Such \"compensation,\" dependent on the devaluation of Black existence, helped secure the US capitalist regime and prevent interracial class solidarity. This book argues that Du Bois's influential account of compensatory whiteness is crucially important, but also incomplete. For Du Bois, whiteness was never one thing, but many. Focusing on Du Bois's middle-period work (about 1920-1940), Ella Myers uncovers an overlooked, complex analysis that theorizes whiteness as a source of varied gratifications. These gratifications include not only the status rewards of racial capitalism, but also the enjoyment of gratuitous Black suffering and the conviction that the planet belongs to those marked as \"white.\" The book shows that Du Bois's analysis, developed in response to the\u003cbr\u003epressing political problems of his own day, also offers insight into 21st century struggles for racial justice. Myers argues that it is important to recognize the extent to which anti-Blackness continues to underwrite plural -and deeply disturbing-forms of white gratification here and now. Doing so helps explain the tenacity of America's unequal racial order and also reveals why creative, multifaceted strategies of resistance are necessary to end it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElla Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is a political theorist and Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is author of \u003cem\u003eWorldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World\u003c\/em\u003e (2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.33 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253323685990,"sku":"9780197556771","price":69.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RUdRd1FuQ214OU9yRmkxTGVRWVBSQT09.webp?v=1773600632","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-gratifications-of-whiteness-w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-enduring-rewards-of-anti-blackness-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}