Off white : readings on race, power, and society /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description:xii, 366 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2616267
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Other authors / contributors:Fine, Michelle.
ISBN:0415913012 (hc : alk. paper)
0415913020 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Constructing
  • 1. Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary U.S. Racial Politics
  • 2. How Did Jews Become White Folks?
  • 3. Behind the Gates: Social Splitting and the "Other,"
  • 4. Black Infants and White Men: Tied into a Single Garment of Destiny
  • 5. Keeping the White Queen in Play
  • 6. Race and the Politics of Educational Reform
  • Living
  • 7. Whites Are from Mars, O.J. is from Planet Hollywood: Blacks don't support O.J. and Whites Just Don't Get It
  • 8. Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class
  • 9. Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia and Violence: Random School Shootings 1982-2001
  • 10. Excavating a "Moment in History": Privilege and Loss Inside White Working-Class Masculinity
  • 11. Affirmative Action: Diversity, Merit, and the Benefit of White People
  • Representing
  • 12. Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television
  • 13. The Revolution of Little Girls
  • 14. Representations of Race and Social Responsibility: News Stories About Neglect and Failure to Protect
  • 15. Finding a Place to Pee and Other Struggles of Ethnography: Reflections on Race and Method
  • 16. White Experimenters, White Blood, and Other White Conditions: Locating the Psychologist's Race
  • Educating
  • 17. The Achievement (K)not: Whiteness and "Black Underachievement,"
  • 18. Witnessing Whiteness
  • 19. Colorblindness in Teacher Education: An Optical Delusion
  • 20. Resisting Diversity: An Alaskan Case of Institutional Struggle
  • 21. "We didn't see Color.": The Salience of Colorblindness In Desegregated Schools
  • 22. Narrating the Multicultural Nation: Rosa Parks and the White Mythology of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Contesting
  • 23. Through the Looking Glass: Implications of Studying Whiteness for Feminist Methods
  • 24. Racism and "Whiteness" in transitions to peace: Indigenous peoples, human rights, and the struggle for justice
  • 25. Racial wrongs and restitutions: The role of guilt and other group-based emotions
  • 26. White Educators as Allies: Moving from Awareness to Action
  • 27. The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility
  • 28. A White Side of Blackness?: White Antiracism and the Transfer of Racial Literacy in Multiracial Families
  • 29. Whiteness of a Different Color?