Critical white studies : looking behind the mirror / edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delgado, Richard.

Stefancic, Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--United States--Attitudes.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (700 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffin, David Roediger, Kathleen Heal Cleaver, Noel Ignatiev, Cherrie Moraga, and Reginald Horsman, attack such questions as:*How was whiteness invented, and why?*How has the category whiteness changed over time?*Why did some immigrant groups, such as the Irish and Jews, start out as nonwhite and later became white?*Can some individual people be both white and nonwhite at different times, and what does it mean to "pass for white"?*At what point does pride in being white cross the line into white power or white supremacy?*What can whites concerned over racial inequity or white privilege do about it? Science and pseudoscience are presented side by side to demonstrate how our views on whiteness often reflect preconception, not fact. For example, most scientists hold that race is not a valid scientific category -- genetic differences between races are insignificant compared to those within them. Yet, the "one drop" rule, whereby those with any nonwhite heritage are classified as nonwhite, persists even today. As the bell curve controversy shows, race concepts die hard, especially when power and prestige lie behind them. A sweeping portrait of the emerging field of whiteness studies, Critical White Studies presents, for the first time, the best work from sociology, law, history, cultural studies, and literature. Delgado and Stefancic expressly offer critical white studies as the next step in critical race theory. In focusing on whiteness, not only do they ask nonwhites to investigate more closely for what it means for others to be white, but also they invite whites to examine themselves more searchingly and to "look behind the mirror."

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I How Whites See Themselves; 1 The End of the Great White Male; 2 White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century; 3 The Skin We're In; 4 The Way of the WASP; 5 Hiring Quotas for White Males Only; 6 Innocence and Affirmative Action; 7 Doing the White Male Kvetch (A Pale Imitation of a Rag); 8 Growing Up White in America?; 9 Growing Up (What) in America?; 10 White Images of Black Slaves (Is What We See in Others Sometimes a Reflection of What We Find in Ourselves?); Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments

Suggested ReadingsPART II How Whites See Others; 11 The White Race Is Shrinking: Perceptions of Race in Canada and Some Speculations on the Political Economy of Race Classification; 12 Ignoble Savages; 13 Darkness Made Visible: law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self; 14 Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the literary Imagination; 15 Transparently White Subjective Decisionmaking: Fashioning a legal Remedy; 16 The Rhetorical Tapestry of Race; 17 Imposition; 18 Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of liberation; 19 The Tower of Babel

20 The Quest for Freedom in the Post-Brown South: Desegregation and White Self-Interest21 ""Soulmaning"": Using Race for Political and Economic Gain; 22 Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and Miseducation; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART III Whiteness: History's Role; 23 Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism; 24 The Invention of Race: Rereading White Over Black

25 ""Only the Law Would Rule between Us"": Antimiscegenation, the Moral Economy of Dependency, and the Debate over Rights after the Civil War26 The Antidemocratic Power of Whiteness; 27 Who's Black, Who's White, and Who Cares; 28 Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture; 29 Back to the Future with The Bell Curve: Jim Crow, Slavery, and G; 30 The Genetic Tie; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART IV Whiteness: Law's Role; 31 White Law and Lawyers: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood

32 Social Science and Segregation before Brown33 Mexican-Americans and Whiteness; 34 Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education; 35 The Transparency Phenomenon, Race-Neutral Decisionmaking, and Discriminatory Intent; 36 Toward a Black Legal Scholarship: Race and Original Understandings; 37 Identity Notes, Part One: Playing in the Light; 38 The Constitutional Ghetto; Synopses of Other Important Works; From the Editors: Issues and Comments; Suggested Readings; PART V Whiteness: Culture's Role; 39 Do You Know This Man?; 40 The Curse of Ham

41 Los Olvidados: On the Making of Invisible People

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [664]) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612047596

9781282047594

1282047590

9781439901519

1439901511

OCLC:

853359695

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34617 hdl