Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Octavo in color-illus. white wraps, vi, 360 pages; 24 cmIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index. Fine with miniscule bump (negligible) to rear bottom corner; faintest of wear to exterior. As new. . Paperback. ISBN: 9780822320210

"Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singular concept, the essays describe, for instance, African American, Chicana/o, European American, and British experiences of whiteness. The contributors offer critical readings of theory, literature, film, and popular culture; ethnographic analyses; explorations of identity formation; and examinations of racism and political process. Essays examine the alarming epidemic of angry white men on both sides of the Atlantic; far-right electoral politics in the UK; underclass white people in Detroit; whiteness in "brownface" in the film Gandhi; the engendering of whiteness in Chicana/o movement discourses; "whiteface" literature; Roland Barthes as a critic of white consciousness; whiteness in the black imagination; the inclusion and exclusion of suburban "brown-skinned white girls"; and the slippery relationships between culture, race, and nation in the history of whiteness. Displacing Whiteness breaks new ground by specifying how whiteness lived, engaged, appropriated, and theorized in a range of geographical locations and historical moments, representing a necessary advance in analytical thinking surrounding the burgeoning study of race and culture."--Jacket Contents: Introduction: local whitenesses, localizing whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- Fictions of whiteness: speaking the names of whiteness in U.S. literature / Rebecca Aanerud -- Rereading Gandhi / T. Muraleedharan -- Theorizing white consciousness for a post-empire world: Barthes, Fanon, and the rhetoric of love / Chéla Sandoval -- On the social construction of whiteness within selected Chicana/o discourses / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian -- Representing whiteness in the black imagination / bell hooks -- Locating white Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. -- Brown-skinned white girls: class, culture, and the construction of white identity in suburban communities / France Winddance Twine -- Laboring under whiteness / Phil Cohen -- Island racism: gender, place, and white power / Vron Ware -- Minstrel shows, affirmative action talk, and angry white men: marking racial otherness in the 1990s / David Wellman. Eurocentrism. White people -- Attitudes. Racism. Eurocentrism. Racism. Whites -- Attitudes. Rassenfrage Weiße Eurocentrism. Whites -- Attitudes. Racism.Aufsatzsammlung. Aufsatzsammlung. Weiße.