The making of White American identity / Ron Eyerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eyerman, Ron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--United States--Attitudes.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Mass media and race relations--United States.

Mass media and race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In 'The Making of White American Identity', Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the United States. Drawing upon his previous work on the formation of African American identity, as well as cultural trauma theory, collective memory and social movements, Eyerman reveals how and under what conditions such a collective identification emerges, how collective action around an ideology of whiteness and white superiority happens and considers the prospects of the ideology of white supremacy as a political force in the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. On Trauma, Trauma Narratives, and Social Movements

2. White Consciousness from Colonization to the Civil War

3. Representing and Organizing Whiteness

4. Racializing the Nation: Popular Culture and Whiteness

5. Voicing Whiteness: Banal Whiteness, Real and Imagined Communities, and the Reproduction of Color Codes

6. White Consciousness in the Digital Age

7. On the Future of Whiteness and White Supremacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 3, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-765897-0

0-19-765896-2

0-19-765895-4