The making and unmaking of whiteness / edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen ... [et al.]
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| Subjects: | Whites--Race identity--United States--Congresses Race awareness--United States--Congresses Racism--United States--Congresses Social classes--United States--Congresses United States--Race relations--Congresses United States--Social conditions--1980---Congresses |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| LC Classification: | E |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction / Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica 1 Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White / Dalton Conley 25 "The Souls of White Folks" / Mab Segrest 43 The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg 72 White Racial Projects / Howard Winant 97 The "Morphing" Properties of Whiteness / Troy Duster 113 "White Devils" Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit / John Hartigan, Jr. 138 Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar 167 Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination / Vron Ware 184 The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the "Vital Center" / Eric Lott 214 How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays / Allan Berube 234 (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations / Michael Omi 266 Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of "Whiteness" for Activism and the Academy / William Aal 294 Bibliography 311 Contributors 333 Index 337 |
| Additional Authors: | Brander Rasmussen, Birgit, 1968- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2001028688 ISBN: 0822327309 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0822327406 (pbk. : alk. paper) Papers from a conference held at the University of California at Berkeley in April 1997 Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index Contents: Universal freckle, or how I learned to be white / Dalton Conley -- "The souls of white folks" / Mab Segrest -- The mirage of an unmarked whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- White racial projects / Howard Winant -- The "Morphing" properties of whiteness / Troy Duster -- "White devils" talk back : what antiracists can learn from whites in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. -- Transnational configurations of desire : the nation and its white closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar -- Perfidious Albion : whiteness and the international imagination / Vron Ware -- The new liberalism in America : identity politics in the "vital center" / Eric Lott -- How gay stays white and what kind of white it stays / Allan Bérubé -- (E)racism : emerging practices of antiracist organizations / Michael Omi -- Moving from guilt to action : antiracist organizing and the concept of "whiteness" for activism and the academy / William Aal |
| Physical Description: | viii, 343 p. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 46808390 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0822327309 0822327406 |