Abstract:Phenomenology has been used numerous times in discussions of race. Yet despite the value of the approach-and the well-known phenomenologies of race done by Frantz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, David Macey, Linda Martin Alcoff, and others-phenomenology has only rarely been used to dissect "whiteness." Much of the scholarly work on whiteness discusses it as an ideology, a product of social relations, or a set of institutionalized practices.1 Similarly, most of the work that examines race from a phenomenological perspecti… Show more
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