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Book SynopsisPresents a range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative global racisms, trans-national white identity, and post-apartheid South Africa, this title discusses the intersection of gay identity and whiteness.
Trade Review“If for no other reason than that the circulation of racialized power has been and is fractured, multi-faceted, contradictory, and continual, then this collection would be valuable in its attention to the accumulation of the political and disciplinary effects of whiteness. The particular strength of this attention is magnified by the combination of work herein that originates in both academic and other than academic sites. And it is brave work; it proceeds without guarantees of its own outcome, without knowing what questions it might settle.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University
“This very powerful volume touches many nerves in contemporary cultural politics. Its collected essays take various perspectives and collectively—and sometimes individually—engage various contradictions. It’s a disturbing, engaging, sometimes frustrating, deeply affecting book.”—Kathleen Stewart, author of
A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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