Twine A White Side of Black Britain

Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9355-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

An ethnographic analysis of the racial consciousness of white transracial women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twine, France Winddance

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smyth, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Territories of Whiteness in Black Britain 1

1. A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy 31

2. Disciplining Racial Dissidents: Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers 60

3. The Concept of Racial Literacy 89

4. Racial Literacy in Practice 116

5. Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production 146

6. Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs 171

7. White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness 195

8. Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy 223

Conclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions 257

Notes 267

References 279

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.