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In this article, the author, who authored the book "Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism," discusses the book reexamines middle-class white anti-racism and also supports racial justice movement.

The article discusses Baruch Spinoza's and Friedrich Nietzsche's accounts of affect and ontology and how they can be significantly helpful to philosophical attempts to transform whiteness into an anti-racist identity. The author examines Spinoza's affinities with Nietzsche to explain the different ways that sad and joyful passions constitute and circulate through human beings in their interrelationships.

Compares John Dewey's and Friedrich Nietzsche's work. Reference to Dewey's program of pragmatic democracy, and Nietzsche's `Beyond Good And Evil'; Information on Nietzsche's self-overcoming; Examination of Dewey's reconstruction.

Examines the role of passion as it relates to ethics in Soren Kierkegaard's journal `Either/Or.' Indepth look at Judge William's response to this issue; Reference to the play `The First Love'; The definitive nature of passion.