Introducing the white democracy -- A political theory of race -- The problem of the white citizen -- The peculiar dilemma of whiteness -- The failure of multiculturalism and color blindness -- The abolition-democracy
Summary
Joel Olson contends that, given the history of slavery and segregation in the United States, American citizenship is a form of racial privilege in which whites are equal to each other but superior to everyone else. To break this pattern, Olson suggests an "abolitionist-democratic" political theory that makes the fight against racial discrimination a prerequisite for expanding democratic participation
