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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 presents an analysis of Josiah Royce's essay titled "Provincialism" which focuses on transforming whiteness into a non-oppressive and anti-racist. According to the author, Royce distinguishes both provincialism and its development as a conscious phenomena which includes consciousness of unity and place identity among provinces. She suggests that for members of a province to develop wise provincialism, they should have relations with other communities and make use of what they acquire for life and community development. She also advocates the determination to give the surroundings of a community with dignity, beauty and nobility. She further stresses that the white people are totally responsible for their whiteness because they do not have the sole control over their whiteness.

The article presents the response of William James, the author of the book "Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege, on the several comments from the authors including Charles Mills, Paul Taylor, and Cynthia Willett. James mentions the prime objective of his book which is to bring American philosophy into conversation with psychoanalytic theory on the issues of racism as well as white privilege. James provides various explanations and elaboration on the critics.

Comments on the article "Racial Prejudice and Friction," by John Dewey. Reaction on Dewey's definition of racial prejudice; Discussion of the problematic details of Dewey's solution to racial friction; Focus on Dewey's presentation of habit as structure that provides stability.

Examines the shift in W. E. B. Du Bois' ideas about the unconscious and economic operations of racism as implicated in the "The Gift of Black Folk." Shift in Du Bois' thought concerning the motivations for and strategies against white racism; Problem of unconscious white resistance to recognizing white racism and white privilege; Comments on Du Bois' use of the term unconscious habit.

Explores the notion of reciprocity between races according to Jane Addams. Ways by which reciprocal relationships can be harmful to minority racial groups; Challenge of the critical race theory to racism; Lessons for contemporary pragmatist feminists and race theorists.