Working through whiteness : international perspectives / edited by Cynthia Levine-Rasky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine-Rasky, Cynthia.

Series:

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

White people--Attitudes.

White people--Psychology.

Women, White--Race identity.

Women, White.

Women, White--Attitudes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, American, British, and Australian scholars, reflecting the broad array of academic inquiry into whiteness in the areas of law, ethics, education, feminism, politics, psychology, sociology, criminology, and social geography. Rarely has knowledge of whiteness as the practice of social domination been drawn from this far and wide. By embracing the leading edge in critical theory, this book is a crucial addition to the growing literature on whiteness.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Contexts of Whiteness

1. Whiteness and The Great Law of Peace 25

David Bedford and W. Thom Workman

2. "The Iniquitous Practice of Women": Prostitution

and the Making of White Spaces in British Columbia,

1898-1905 43

Renisa Mawani

3. A White World? Whiteness and the Meaning

of Modernity in Latin America and Japan 69

Alastair Bonnett

4. White Noise: Australia's Struggle

with Multiculturalism 107

Andrew Jakubowicz

II. Studies in Whiteness

5. A Room without a View: Social Distance

and the Structuring of Privileged Identity 129

Michael Alan Sacks and Marika Lindholm

6. Looking at the Invisible: A Q-Methodological

Investigation of Young White Women's Constructions

of Whiteness 153

Stephanie Kellington

7. Building a Home on a Border: How Single White

Women Raising Multiracial Children Construct

Racial Meaning 179

Jennifer A. Reich

8. The Impact of Whiteness on the Culture of Law:

From Theory to Practice 209

L. A. Visano

m. Pedagogies for Whiteness

9. "In Whitest England": New Subject Positions

for White Youth in the Post-Imperial Moment 241

Anoop Nayak

10. When the Big Snow Melts: White Women Teaching

in Canada's North 269

Helen Harper

11. Developing Feminist Pedagogical Practices

to Complicate Whiteness and Work with

Defensiveness 289

Jessica Ringrose

12. Critical/Relational/Contextual: Toward a Model

for Studying Whiteness 319

Cynthia Levine-Rasky.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791488720

0791488721

9780585475172

0585475172

OCLC:

461428954