Description
Book SynopsisMakes a contribution to the study of race dominance. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singular concept, this book includes essays that describe, for instance, African American, Chicana, European American, and British experiences of whiteness.
Trade Review“An excellent sampling of scholarship in an emerging field. The multiracial dynamics of the formation of whiteness are well represented. And a sure mark of the maturity of the collection is the recurring, careful attention to the dynamics of race and gender.”—David Roediger, University of Missouri
“This collection will be a substantial contribution to a current and growing body of materials investigating whiteness. As Frankenberg and the contributors know, recent work—even work that brackets whiteness in terms of class—has made little effort to specify the stunning range of particularity in the ways whiteness is experienced. This collection begins such a specification.”—Dana D. Nelson, University of Kentucky
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Local Whiteness, Localizing Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg 1
Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature / Rebecca Aanerud 35
Rereading
Ghandi / T. Muraleedharan 60
Theorizing White Consciousness for a Post-Empire World: Barthes, Fanon, and the Rhetoric of Love / Chéla Sandoval 86
On the Social Construction of Whiteness within Selected Chicana/o Discourse / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian 107
Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination / bell hooks 165
Locating White Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. 180
Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities / France Winddance Twine 214
Laboring under Whiteness / Phil Cohen 244
Island Racism: Gender, Place, and White Power / Vron Ware 283
Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990s / David Wellman 311
Bibliography 333
Contributors 349
Index 351
