Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance

by Fine; Michelle

• ISBN13: 9780415949644
• ISBN10: 0415949645
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Reuniting the top scholars in psychology, sociology, education, women's studies, and ethnic studies,Off Whiteis again breaking new ground in analyses of race and privilege. This thoroughly revised collection provides an extended examination of the material conditions of whiteness and contemporary racial formations by considering such areas as class, gender, sexuality, geography, and media as sites for studying racism. With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated Second Edition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Constructing
1 Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary U.S. Racial Politics	3	(14)
Howard Winant
2 How Did Jews Become White Folks?
Karen Brodkin	17	(18)
3 Behind the Gates: Social Splitting and the "Other"
Setha Low	35	(17)
4 Black Infants and White Men: Tied into a Single Garment of Destiny	52	(13)
Ronald David
5 Keeping the White Queen in Play
Michael Billig	65	(9)
6 Making White Right: Race and the Politics of Educational Reform	74	(15)
Michael W. Apple
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	89	(9)
James M. Jones
8 Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class	98	(16)
Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, and June Melody
9 Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings 1982-2001	114	(14)
Michael S. Kimmel and Matthew Mahler
10 Excavating a "Moment in History": Privilege and Loss inside White Working-Class Masculinity	128	(17)
Lois Weis, Amira Proweller, and Craig Centrie
11 Affirmative Action: Diversity, Merit, and the Benefit of White People	145	(18)
Faye J. Crosby and Stacy Blake-Beard
Representing
12 Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner City in Contemporary Film and Television	163	(12)
Cameron McCarthy, Alida Rodriquez, Shuaib Meecham, Stephen David, Carrie Wilson-Brown, Heriberto Godina, K.E. Supryia, and Ed Buendia
13 The Revolution of Little Girls
Pat Macpherson	175	(11)
14 Representations of Race and Social Responsibility: News Stories about Neglect and Failure to Protect	186	(20)
Sarah Carney
15 Finding a Place to Pee and Other Struggles of Ethnography: Reflections on Race and Method	206	(9)
Mitchell Duneier
16 White Experimenters, White Blood, and Other White Conditions: Locating the Psychologist's Race	215	(20)
Jill G. Morawski
Educating
17 The Achievement (K)not: Whiteness and "Black Underachievement"	235	(10)
Linda Powell Pruitt
18 Witnessing Whiteness/Gathering Intelligence
Michelle Fine	245	(12)
19 Color Blindness in Teacher Education: An Optical Delusion	257	(16)
Pearl M. Rosenberg
20 Resisting Diversity: An Alaskan Case of Institutional Struggle	273	(11)
Perry Gilmore, David M. Smith, and Apacuar Larry Kairaiuak
21 "We Didn't See Color": The Salience of Color Blindness in Desegregated Schools	284	(18)
Anita Tijerina Revilla, Amy Stuart Wells, and Jennifer Jellison Holme
22 Narrating the Multicultural Nation: Rosa Parks and the White Mythology of the Civil Rights Movement	302	(13)
Dennis Carlson
Contesting
23 Through the Looking Glass: Implications of Studying Whiteness for Feminist Methods	315	(16)
Aida Hurtado and Abigail J. Stewart
24 Racism and "Whiteness" in Transitions to Peace: Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Justice	331	(14)
Maria De Jesus and M. Brinton Lykes
25 Racial Wrongs and Restitutions: The Role of Guilt and Other Group-Based Emotions	345	(17)
Aarti Iyer, Colin Wayne Leach, and Anne Pedersen
26 White Educators as Allies: Moving from Awareness to Action	362	(11)
Sandra M. Lawrence and Beverly Daniel Tatum
27 The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility	373	(22)
April Burns
28 White Antiracism in Multiracial Families
France Winddance Twine	395	(16)
29 Whiteness of a Different Color?
Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres	411	(20)
Contributors	431	(6)
Index	437