{"product_id":"racial-situations-class-predicaments-of-whiness-in-detroit-class-predicaments-of-whiteness-in-detroit-9780691028859","title":"Racial Situations Class Predicaments Of Whiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. This book argues that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hartigan is a good storyteller ... and a clear analyst of how local residents, black and white, make sense of race as it affects their lives and their sometimes desperate attempts to make do in this impoverished bit of the city... By asking us to see race and class in different ways, this book helps us to imagine a world where such categories might be meaningless or superseded, even as it immerses us in the intractable, dangerous and hurtful relationships these fields of inequality perpetuate around us.\"--Marc Christensen, Metro Times Detroit \"A sobering examination of the tangled web of race, class, and struggles over space.\"--Choice \"This inventive, impressive [book] ... contributes to the reorientation of studies of white identity ... [It will] reward historians who venture into this ambitious anthropological account.\"--David Roediger, Journal of American Ethnic History \"This is an excellent book that ought to be widely read ... Substantively important, theoretically sophisticated, and full of unforgettable characters.\"--Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Contemporary Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xi  Names and Transcriptions xiii  Abbreviations xv  Introduction 3  Detroit 9  Three Neighborhoods 11  The Localness of Race 13  White People or Whiteness? 16  Structure of the Book 19  1. History of the 'Hood 24  \"Disgrace to the Race\" 26  The Color Line 37  Riots and Race 50  Franklin School 69  2. \"A Hundred Shades of White\" 83  \"Hillbillies\" 88  \"That White and Black Shit\" 107  The Wicker Chair and the Baseball Game 128  3. Eluding the R-Word 145  The \"Fact\" of Whiteness 151  Encounters 158  \"Gentrifier\" 168  \"History\" 191  4. Between \"All Black\" and \"All White\" 209  Statements 214  \"White Enclave\" 224  \"Racist\" 245  Curriculum 263  Conclusion 278  Notes 28S  Index 347","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403693203799,"sku":"9780691028859","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691028859.jpg?v=1730484265","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racial-situations-class-predicaments-of-whiness-in-detroit-class-predicaments-of-whiteness-in-detroit-9780691028859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}