The future of whiteness / Linda Martín Alcoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alcoff, Linda Martín, author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

White people--United States.

White people.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people--Race identity.

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015.

Summary:

White European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50 percent of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: "to take our country back". Meanwhile, the specter of "minority status" draws closer, and the material advantages of being born white are eroding. This is the political and cultural reality tackled by Linda Martín Alcoff in The Future of Whiteness. She argues that while white dominance is here to stay, at least for the time being, more than half of whites have given up on ideas of white supremacy, and the country's shared culture is more integrated than ever before. The young generation of whites today, as well as all those who follow, will never have known a country in which they could take white identity as the unchallenged default that dominates the political, economic, and cultural leadership. More and more, whites are becoming aware of how they appear to nonwhites, both at home and abroad, and this is having profound effects on white identity in North America. Change is on the horizon, and the most important battleground is among white people themselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An Analytic of Whiteness 39

2 White Exceptionalism 91

3 Double Consciousness 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780745685441

0745685447

9780745685458

0745685455

OCLC:

905089377