Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century: Changes and Challenges

by Gallagher; Charles A

• ISBN13: 9780415680004
• ISBN10: 041568000X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Centuryexamines the role whiteness and white identities play in framing and reworking racial categories, hierarchies and boundaries within the context of nation, class, gender and immigration. It takes as its theoretical starting point the understanding that whiteness is not, and nor has it ever been, a static uniform category of social identification. The scholarship in this book uses new empirical studies to show whiteness as a multiplicity of identities that are historically grounded, class specific, politically manipulated and gendered social relations that inhabit local custom and national sentiment. Contributors to this book examine a wide range of issues, yet all chapters are linked by one common denominator: they examine how power and oppression are articulated, redefined and asserted through various political discourses and cultural practices that privilege whiteness even when the prerogatives of the dominant group are contested. Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Centuryis an important new contribution to the study of whiteness for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and Ethnography. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: The future of whiteness: a map of the 'third wave'	p. 1
Repertoires for talking white: Resistant whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa	p. 21
'Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities	p. 48
Why does country music sound white? Race and the voice of nostalgia	p. 69
Walleye warriors and white identities: Native Americans' treaty rights, composite identities and social movements	p. 97
White dreams and red votes: Mexican Americans and the lure of inclusion in the Republican Party	p. 119
The landscape of post-imperial whiteness in rural Britain	p. 163
Index	p. 181
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