The making and unmaking of whiteness / edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2001.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages)

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Series
e-Duke books scholarly collection [More in this series]
Summary note
A collection of new essays in race theory, drawn from the 4/97 Berkeley conference.
Notes
Papers from a conference held at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
English.
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 Bérubé
  • (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.
ISBN
  • 9780822381044 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0822381044 ((electronic bk.))
Other standard number
  • 99962523877
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