Displacing whiteness essays in social and cultural criticism
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
1997, ©1997
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Local Whitenesses, Localizing Whiteness
- Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature
- Rereading Gandhi
- Theorizing White Consciousness for a Post-Empire World: Barthes, Fanon, and the Rhetoric of Love
- On the Social Construction of Whiteness within Selected Chicana/o Discourses
- Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination
- Locating White Detroit
- Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities
- Laboring under Whiteness
- Island Racism: Gender, Place, and White Power
- Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990S
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index