After whiteness : unmaking an American majority / Mike Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Mike, 1964-

Series:

Cultural front (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

Men, White--United States--Psychology.

Men, White.

Heterosexual men--United States--Psychology.

Heterosexual men.

National characteristics, American.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Group identity--Political aspects--United States.

Group identity.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Census, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2004.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ""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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: After Whiteness Eve; Part I: Incalculable Community: Multiracialism, U.S. Census 2000, and the Crisis of the Liberal State; Labor Formalism; Dissensus 2000; The Will to Category; Rebirth of a Nation?; America, Not Counting Class; Part II: A Fascism of Benevolence: God and Family in the Father-Shaped Void; Of Communism and Castration; Muscular Multiculturalism; When Color is the Father; A Certain Gesture of Virility; The Eros of Warfare; Part III: Race Among Ruins: Whiteness, Work, and Writing in the New University; Between Jobs and Work

The Multiversity's Diversity After Whiteness Studies; Multitude or Culturalism?; How Color Saved the Canon; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-261) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814773390

0814773397

9780814744598

0814744591

9781417568536

1417568534

OCLC:

780425899