Images of whiteness / edited by Clarissa Behar, Anastasia Chung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behar, Clarissa, editor.

Chung, Anastasia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This collection examines images of whiteness in literature, film, television, as well as ethnographic studies, and provides preliminary guidance to engage in anti-racist praxis and education.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Clarissa Behar and Anastasia Chung

Of Ex-White Men: Whiteness and Nationalist Self-Fashioning in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora and Nirad Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian / Sayan Chattopadhyay

In a ‘Hall of Mirrors’: A Phenomenology of Heteronormative White Double Consciousness in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room / Gregory Luke Chwala

Lines of Flight: Sexual/Textual Politics in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomies / Carol L. Yang

150 Years of Italian Whiteness? Italian Writers Reflect on What White Italianness Means Today / Polina Shvanyukova

The Good, Bad and Ugly: Performing Whiteness in the Chinese Propaganda Cinema 1949-1976 / Lin Feng

Images of Whiteness and the Counter-Stereotype: 24’s Representation of Muslims from the Middle East with White Masks / Rolf Halse

Gators, Beavers and Roaches: Whiteness and Regional Identity in Reality Television / Julie Haynes

Dexter, Post-9/11 Anxiety and White Renewal / Annemarie Kane

‘Whiteness’ and Bollywood TV Serials: A Mauritian Reflection / Angela Ramsoondur-Mungur

Racial Whiteness and Contemporary French Comedy Films: The Case of Les Intouchables / Clarissa Behar

Tales from the Grafted One: Autoethnography of a White Fan of 5%er Hip-Hop / Dale Anderson

Professionalising Whiteness in Volunteer Work, Jakarta / Anastasia Chung

President Lula and the Impossibility of a Brazilian Whiteness / Jimmy Turner

Modelling Malcolm: Teaching Whiteness through the Life and Work of Malcolm X / Carol W. Anthony

Examining White Racial Identity: An Exploratory Study / Krista M. Malott , Tina R. Paone , Scott Schaefle and Jennifer Cates

Whiteness Instruction in an Experiential Group Course / Tina R. Paone and Krista M. Malott

Whiteness in Education: How are Notions of Educational Success in Australia Influenced by Images of Whiteness? / Sophie Rudolph

White Man’s Burden: Explaining the Historical Construction of Whiteness through Defence Mechanisms / Josh Newton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-222-X

OCLC:

1096222866

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882225 DOI