The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

by Rasmussen, Birgit Brander; Klinenberg, Eric; Nexica, Irene J.; Wray, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780822327301
• ISBN10: 0822327309
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780822381044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"This very powerful volume touches many nerves in contemporary cultural politics. Its collected essays take various perspectives and collectively--and sometimes individually--engage various contradictions. It's a disturbing, engaging, sometimes frustrating, deeply affecting book."--Kathleen Stewart, author of "A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(24)
Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Eric Klinenberg
Irene J. Nexica
Matt Wray
Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White	25	(18)
Dalton Conley
``The Souls of White Folks''	43	(29)
Mab Segrest
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness	72	(25)
Ruth Frankenberg
White Racial Projects	97	(16)
Howard Winant
The ``Morphing'' Properties of Whiteness	113	(25)
Troy Duster
``White Devils'' Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit	138	(29)
John Hartigan, Jr.
Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets	167	(17)
Jasbir Kaur Puar
Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination	184	(30)
Vron Ware
The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ``Vital Center''	214	(20)
Eric Lott
How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays	234	(32)
Allan Berube
(E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations	266	(28)
Michael Omi
Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ``Whiteness'' for Activism and the Academy	294	(17)
William Aal
Bibliography	311	(22)
Contributors	333	(4)
Index	337