Frankenberg Displacing Whiteness

Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8227-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

A collection of anti-racist, critical essays on the specific (localized) constructions of whiteness, white identities and white privilege edited by the author of the very successful White Women, Race Matters (U. Minn.)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frankenberg, Ruth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aanerud, Rebecca

Muraleedharan, T.

Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie

hooks, bell

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction: Local Whitenesses, Localizing Whiteness Frankenberg Ruth Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature Aanerud Rebecca Rereading Gandhi Muraleedharan T. Theorizing White Consciousness for a Post-Empire World: Barthes, Fanon, and the Rhetoric of Love Sandoval Chéla On the Social Construction of Whiteness within Selected Chicana/o Discourses Chabram-Dernersesian Angie Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination hooks bell Locating White Detroit Hartigan Jr. John Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities Twine France Winddance Laboring under Whiteness Cohen Phil Island Racism: Gender, Place, and White Power Ware Vron Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990s Wellman David Bibliography Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Frankenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis and is the author of White Women, Race Matters.