The making and unmaking of whiteness / edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brander Rasmussen, Birgit, 1968-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity--United States--Congresses.

White people.

Race awareness--United States--Congresses.

Race awareness.

Racism--United States--Congresses.

Racism.

Social classes--United States--Congresses.

Social classes.

United States--Race relations--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980---Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of new essays in race theory, drawn from the 4/97 Berkeley conference.

Contents:

Universal freckle, or how I learned to be white / Dalton Conley

"The souls of white folks" / Mab Segrest

The mirage of an unmarked whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg

White racial projects / Howard Winant

The "Morphing" properties of whiteness / Troy Duster

"White devils" talk back : what antiracists can learn from whites in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr.

Transnational configurations of desire : the nation and its white closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar

Perfidious Albion : whiteness and the international imagination / Vron Ware

The new liberalism in America : identity politics in the "vital center" / Eric Lott

How gay stays white and what kind of white it stays / Allan Berube

(E)racism : emerging practices of antiracist organizations / Michael Omi

Moving from guilt to action : antiracist organizing and the concept of "whiteness" for activism and the academy / William Aal.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062079

9781283062077

1283062070

9780822381044

0822381044

OCLC:

191222420