Brander Rasmussen / Klinenberg / Nexica The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8104-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

A collection of new essays in race theory, drawn from the 4/97 Berkeley conference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brander Rasmussen, Birgit

Klinenberg, Eric

Nexica, Irene J.

Wray, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray

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: Whitenss and the International Imagination / Vron Ware

The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the “Vital Center” / Eric Lott

How Gays 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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Birgit Brander Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University. She is the co-editor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke, 2001).Eric Klinenberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.Irene J. Nexica is an independent scholar who studies popular music and culture.Matt Wray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.