ISBN:
9780415949644
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (465 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Off White : Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Racism - United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps
Description / Table of Contents:
Off white Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Constructing; 1 Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary U.S. Racial Politics; 2 How Did Jews Become White Folks?; 3 Behind the Gates: Social Splitting and the "Other"; 4 Black Infants and White Men: Tied into a Single Garment of Destiny; 5 Keeping the White Queen in Play; 6 Making White Right: Race and the Politics of Educational Reform; Living; 7 Whites Are from Mars, O. J. Is from Planet Hollywood: Blacks Don't Support O. J. and Whites Just Don't Get It
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8 Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class9 Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings 1982-2001; 10 Excavating a "Moment in History": Privilege and Loss inside White Working-Class Masculinity; 11 Affirmative Action: Diversity, Merit, and the Benefit of White People; Representing; 12 Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television; 13 The Revolution of Little Girls; 14 Representations of Race and Social Responsibility: News Stories about Neglect and Failure to Protect
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15 Finding a Place to Pee and Other Struggles of Ethnography: Reflections on Race and Method16 White Experimenters, White Blood, and Other White Conditions: Locating the Psychologist's Race; Educating; 17 The Achievement (K)not: Whiteness and "Black Underachievement"; 18 Witnessing Whiteness/Gathering Intelligence; 19 Color Blindness in Teacher Education: An Optical Delusion; 20 Resisting Diversity: An Alaskan Case of Institutional Struggle; 21 "We Didn't See Color": The Salience of Color Blindness in Desegregated Schools
Description / Table of Contents:
22 Narrating the Multicultural Nation: Rosa Parks and the White Mythology of the Civil Rights MovementContesting; 23 Through the Looking Glass: Implications of Studying Whiteness for Feminist Methods; 24 Racism and "Whiteness" in Transitions to Peace: Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Justice; 25 Racial Wrongs and Restitutions: The Role of Guilt and Other Group-Based Emotions; 26 White Educators as Allies: Moving from Awareness to Action; 27 The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility
Description / Table of Contents:
28 White Antiracism in Multiracial Families29 Whiteness of a Different Color?; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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