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White Out : The Continuing Significance of Racism

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Online-Ressource (324 p)

Englisch

Cover; White Out; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: RETHINKING WHITENESS STUDIES; 1 Rethinking Whiteness Studies; PART II: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WHITENESS; 2 Whitewashing Race: A Critical Perspective on Whiteness; 3 White Supremacy as Sociopolitical System: A Philosophical Perspective; 4 Rethinking Whiteness Historiography: The Case of Italians in Chicago, 1890-1945; 5 Shades of Whiteness: The Mexican American Experience in Relation to Anglos and Blacks; 6 Rejecting Blackness and Claiming Whiteness: Antiblack Whiteness in the Biracial Project

7 Who Are These White People?: "Rednecks," "Hillbillies," And "White Trash" As Marked Racial Subjects8 The Beautiful American: Sincere Fictions of the White Messiah in Hollywood Movies; PART III: WHITENESS AND COLOR-BLIND RACISM: EMPIRICAL STUDIES; 9 White Fright: Reproducing White Supremacy through Casual Discourse; 10 Playing the White Ethnic Card: Using Ethnic Identity to Deny Contemporary Racism; 11 Some Are More Equal than Others: Lessons on Whiteness from School; 12 Good Neighborhoods, Good Schools: Race and the "Good Choices" of White Families

13 White Views of Civil Rights: Color Blindness and Equal Opportunity14 "Racing for Innocence": Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash against Affirmative Action; 15 Blinded by Whiteness: The Development of White College Students' Racial Awareness; PART IV: WHITENESS AND ANTIRACISM; 16 Diverse Perspectives on Doing Antiracism: The Younger Generation; 17 The Political Is Personal: The Influence of White Supremacy on White Antiracists' Personal Relationships; PART V: CONCLUSION; 18 "New Racism," Color-Blind Racism, and the Future of Whiteness in America; Notes; References; Contributors

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Print version: White Out : The Continuing Significance of Racism

978-0-415-93582-1

978-0-415-93582-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 826856027     

978-1-136-06458-6 ( : 145 (NL,TX))

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305.8     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

United States - Race relations ; Electronic books

What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of "whiteness