Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Toward a Lesser Shade of White: 12 Steps Towards More Authentic Race Awareness; 2. Too White to Be Black and too Black to Be White: A Journey Away From Whiteness; 3. Learning to Take the Bullet and More: Anti-racism Requirements for White Allies and Other Friends of the Race, So-Called and Otherwise; 4. Privileging Privilege with the Hope of Accessing Privilege; 5. I Refuse to Be a Pawn for Whiteness: A Korean Transracial Adoptee Speaks Out; 6. Repositioning the Hook: (Re)committing to Equity Through Autoethnographic Exploration; 7. English Ivy; 8. Our Journeys as Latin@ Educators and the Perpetual Struggle to Unhook from Whiteness; 9. Interrupting the Racial Triangulation of Asians: Unhooking from Whiteness as a Form of Coalitional Politics; Afterword; About the Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.

The purpose of Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States is to reconsider the ways and strategies in which antiracist scholars do their work, as well as to provide pragmatic ways in which people - White and of color - can build cross-racial, cross-communal, and cross-institutional coalitions to fight White supremacy. Employing the methodology of autoethnography, each chapter in this book illustrates the individual journey that the chapter contributor took to "unhook" him or herself from Whiteness. Unhooking from Whiteness explains Whiteness in ways never conceptualized before. The chapters suggest approaches to "unhooking" from Whiteness, while sharing the authors' continual struggles to identify and eradicate the role of Whiteness in education and society in the United States.
The contributors to Unhooking from Whiteness offer us the invaluable gift of their stories, humble reflections on commitments to racial justice and complicities with racial injustice. But they aren't merely stories - and this is the brilliance of the book - they are invitations into a reconsideration of the "common sense" discussions about the nature of white privilege, the possibility of white anti-racism, and the pervasive tug of whiteness. This is the rare book that shifts the angle and changes the conversation.
Paul Gorski, Coordinator of the Social Justice Concentration, George Mason University