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Autobiography of an Ex-white Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hardcover
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150 pages
Published
March 17th 2005
by University of Rochester Press
(first published February 2005)
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Short and sweet, and very powerful. This book is the story of Robert Paul Wolff's experience of moving from a philosophy department to a department of African American studies. Specifically, it's the story of how his outlook on the United States changed when he read the 50 books that the department assigns its new grad students to read for their degree.
In the process, he analyzes the "master narratives" of american history and shows how those themes (particularly "exceptionalism", and "freedom" ...more
In the process, he analyzes the "master narratives" of american history and shows how those themes (particularly "exceptionalism", and "freedom" ...more
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Robert Paul Wolff is an American political philosopher. An alumnus of Harvard University, he currently teaches at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He was primarily known for his research on Immanuel Kant.
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