This edition offers a revised and updated look at the concept of whiteness in the United States. Lauded when it was first published and even more relevant today, this title offers a distinctive way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them. The author examines how the concept of racial whiteness has undermined attempts to create a truly democratic society in the United States. By getting to the core of the racism that lives on in unrecognized habits, he argues that it is possible for white people to recognize the distance between their color-blind ideals and their actual behavior. Revitalizing the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and John Dewey, he demonstrates how it is possible to reconstruct racial habits and close fissures between people. This second edition also contains a new introduction, which looks closely at race relations during the Obama and Trump presidencies, including such recent challenges as police brutality in 2020, white supremacy, and the Capitol insurrection. Its persuasive analysis of the impulses of whiteness ultimately reorganizes them into something more compatible with our country's increasingly multicultural heritage.