After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority

Mike Hill

Open Access Published by New York University Press 2004

After Whiteness

Unmaking an American Majority

Mike Hill

In the series Cultural Front

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814773390.001.0001

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What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States.

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"Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since ‘whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's reputation as one of the finest thinkers of his generation."
Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
"Mike Hill's After Whiteness is an important, provocative and timely book."
Against the Current
"A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark in the field."
Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
"Americanists across the disciplines will find Hill's analysis insightful and brilliant. A must for any scholar who wishes to, in Ralph Ellison's words, ‘go to the territory.'"
Sharon Holland, University of Illinois at Chicago
As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little discussion of the future: what comes after whiteness? On the brink of what many are now imagining as a post-white American future, it remains a matter of both popular and academic uncertainty as to what will emerge in its place.
After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of coloras illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Allianceand the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.

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Mike Hill is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the editor of Whiteness: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 1997), and the co-editor of Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere.

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Sacvan Bercovitch,Harvard University:
A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will be become a landmark in the field.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: AFTER WHITENESS EVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I INCALCULABLE COMMUNITY: MULTIRACIALISM, U.S. CENSUS 2000, AND THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL STATE
1.1 LABOR FORMALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
1.2 DISSENSUS 2000 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
1.3 THE WILL TO CATEGORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
1.4 REBIRTH OF A NATION? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
1.5 AMERICA, NOT COUNTING CLASS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
II A FASCISM OF BENEVOLENCE: GOD AND FAMILY IN THE FATHER-SHAPED VOID
2.1 OF COMMUNISM AND CASTRATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
2.2 MUSCULAR MULTICULTURALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
2.3 WHEN COLOR IS THE FATHER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
2.4 A CERTAIN GESTURE OF VIRILITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
2.5 THE EROS OF WARFARE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
III RACE AMONG RUINS: WHITENESS, WORK, AND WRITING IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY
3.1 BETWEEN JOBS AND WORK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
3.2 THE MULTIVERSITY’S DIVERSITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
3.3 AFTER WHITENESS STUDIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
3.4 MULTITUDE OR CULTURALISM? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
3.5 HOW COLOR SAVED THE CANON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: January 1, 2004
ISBN: 9780814773390