ISBN:
9781439901519
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (700 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Critical white studies
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
United States -- Race relations
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Whites -- Race identity -- United States
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Whites -- United States -- Attitudes
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
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Weiße
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Ethnische Identität
Abstract:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I How Whites See Themselves; 1 The End of the Great White Male; 2 White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century; 3 The Skin We're In; 4 The Way of the WASP; 5 Hiring Quotas for White Males Only; 6 Innocence and Affirmative Action; 7 Doing the White Male Kvetch (A Pale Imitation of a Rag); 8 Growing Up White in America?; 9 Growing Up (What) in America?; 10 White Images of Black Slaves (Is What We See in Others Sometimes a Reflection of What We Find in Ourselves?); Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments
Abstract:
Suggested ReadingsPART II How Whites See Others; 11 The White Race Is Shrinking: Perceptions of Race in Canada and Some Speculations on the Political Economy of Race Classification; 12 Ignoble Savages; 13 Darkness Made Visible: law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self; 14 Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the literary Imagination; 15 Transparently White Subjective Decisionmaking: Fashioning a legal Remedy; 16 The Rhetorical Tapestry of Race; 17 Imposition; 18 Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of liberation; 19 The Tower of Babel
Abstract:
20 The Quest for Freedom in the Post-Brown South: Desegregation and White Self-Interest21 ""Soulmaning"": Using Race for Political and Economic Gain; 22 Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and Miseducation; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART III Whiteness: History's Role; 23 Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism; 24 The Invention of Race: Rereading White Over Black
Abstract:
25 ""Only the Law Would Rule between Us"": Antimiscegenation, the Moral Economy of Dependency, and the Debate over Rights after the Civil War26 The Antidemocratic Power of Whiteness; 27 Who's Black, Who's White, and Who Cares; 28 Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture; 29 Back to the Future with The Bell Curve: Jim Crow, Slavery, and G; 30 The Genetic Tie; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART IV Whiteness: Law's Role; 31 White Law and Lawyers: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood
Abstract:
32 Social Science and Segregation before Brown33 Mexican-Americans and Whiteness; 34 Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education; 35 The Transparency Phenomenon, Race-Neutral Decisionmaking, and Discriminatory Intent; 36 Toward a Black Legal Scholarship: Race and Original Understandings; 37 Identity Notes, Part One: Playing in the Light; 38 The Constitutional Ghetto; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART V Whiteness: Culture's Role; 39 Do You Know This Man?; 40 The Curse of Ham
Abstract:
41 Los Olvidados: On the Making of Invisible People
Abstract:
No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffin, David Roediger, Kathleen Heal Cleaver, Noel Ignatiev, Cherrie Moraga, and Reginald Horsman, attack such questions as:*How was whiteness invented, and why?*How has the category whiteness changed over time?*Why did some immigrant groups, such as the Irish and Jews, start out as nonwhite and later b
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