Description
Book SynopsisWeaponized Whiteness by Fran Shor interrogates the meanings and implications of white supremacy and, more specifically, white identity politics from historical and sociological perspectives. By analyzing the constructions and deconstructions of white identity politics throughout U.S. history and up through the present, these collected essays provide insight into the deep roots and resonances of white identity politics and the challenges that have emerged, in particular, since the 1960s.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1
Terrors in the Constructions of White Identity Politics
1 U.S."Savage" Wars and White Terror
2 The Past of Present Terrors
3 White Identity Politics and the Terrors of Trumpism
Part 2
Dilemmas in the Deconstructions of White Identity Politics
4 Unveiling Whiteness: White Student Activists in the Civil Rights Movement
5 Exorcising the Ghosts of the Past: From Civil Rights Murders to Confederate Monuments
6 The Deconstruction of Whiteness in a "Post-racial" America
7 Challenging Weaponized Whiteness: Black Lives Matter
Conclusion
Epilogue
Afterword
Frank Joyce
Bibliography
Index
