Whiteness : the communication of social identity /

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Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1999.
Description:xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497724
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Other authors / contributors:Nakayama, Thomas K.
Martin, Judith N.
ISBN:0761908625 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0761908633 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity
  • Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
  • Part 1. Foundations of Whiteness
  • Whiteness and Beyond
  • Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges
  • What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans
  • White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as Apologia
  • Wendell Berry's The Hidden Wound
  • We Celebrate 100 years
  • An 'Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA
  • Part 2. Postcolonial and Poststructuralist Views on Whiteness
  • Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric
  • Whiteness and the Politics of Location
  • Postcolonial Reflections
  • White Difference
  • Cultural Constructions of White Identity
  • Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics
  • Part 3. Whiteness in U.S. Contexts
  • White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology
  • The Discursive Production of 'Good (White) Girls'
  • The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations
  • In the Shadow of Whiteness
  • The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics
  • Part 4. Whiteness in International Contexts
  • Provincializing Whiteness
  • Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress
  • White Identity in Context
  • A Personal Narrative
  • One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses
  • From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism