Author: Valerie Babb
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: whiteness, literature, american, meaning, visible
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814713122
ISBN-13: 9780814713129
Author Valerie Babb investigates the history, values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in the United States. Babb surveys early American writings and material culture, 19th-century literature, and early 20th-century cultural creations. She claims we can only understand the full significance of race, when we understand how the concept of "whiteness" was created in a cultural context.
Author: Steve Garner
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: introduction, whiteness
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0415403642
ISBN-13: 9780415403641
What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology’s objectives is to make the familiar unfamiliar in order to gain heightened understanding, then whiteness offers a perfect opportunity to do so. Leaning firstly on the North American corpus, this key book critically engages with writings on the formation of white identities in Britain, Ireland and the Americas, using multidisciplinary sources. Empiric
Author: Mike Hill
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: reader, critical, whiteness
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0814735452
ISBN-13: 9780814735459
For centuries, Whiteness has been the invisible norm in the West, a transparent, yet ubiquitous frame of reference so pervasive that most Whites consider themselves absolved from race matters. In recent years activists, scholars, and writers have been challenging this cultural and political monolith by investigating Whiteness in its many manifestations. Yet, once it is rendered visible, Whiteness proves to be perilous and paradoxical: we single out Whiteness to expose its status as an unexamined center, yet the more we single it out, the more attention we invariably draw to it, once again at
Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: matters, whiteness, transnational
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0739125575
ISBN-13: 9780739125571
This collection of essays presents one of the first acts of documenting shifts in the cultural production of whiteness within texts across the twentieth century, following shifts from the proud colonial moment through to the moment of liberal multiculturalism to the recent war on terror. Each essay addresses the ways in which texts produced in these moments depend on rhetorical strategies that implicitly or explicitly privilege whiteness.
Authors:Vron Ware, Les Back,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: culture, politics, color, whiteness
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226873420
ISBN-13: 9780226873428
What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make when whites act in a manner that contradicts their designated racial identity? Out of Whiteness considers these questions and argues passionately for an imaginative and radical politics against all forms of racism. Vron Ware and Les Back look at key points in recent American and British culture where the "color line" has been blurred. Through probing accounts of racial masquerades in popular literature, the growth of the white power music scene on the Int
Author: Maurice Berger
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: whiteness, myths, race, lies
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0374527156
ISBN-13: 9780374527150
The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project.Berger’s unusual experience--and his determination to examine the subject of race for its multiple and intricate meanings--makes White Lies a fresh and startling book.Berger has becom
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: imagination, literary, whiteness, playing
Number of Pages: 91
Published: 1993-07-27
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0679745424
ISBN-13: 9780679745426
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.Toni Morrison’s brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a bla
