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
Formats: Print
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

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