The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In The Souls of Black Folks , W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness , Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem. While some whites would like to think that we have reached “the end of racism” in the United States, and others would like to celebrate diversity but are oblivious to the political, economic, and social consequences of a nation—and their sense of self—founded on a system of white supremacy, Jensen proposes a different approach. He sets his sights not only on the racism that can’t be hidden, but also on the liberal platitudes that sometimes ...