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Written in an engaging narrative style, this book contains reflections on the meanings of whiteness in racist contexts. By considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture, these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false naturalistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender. Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here discuss how one learns to be a good white Southern woman, what it means to pass as white, and whether there really is a dilemma that accompanies white privilege. At the heart of this collection are analyses of the relationships between the construction of whiteness and the realities of racism, and politics that hope for a connection between understanding racial formations and resisting racisms.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1 Introduction: Reflections on Whiteness
Part 3 I: Glancing Backward
Chapter 4 2 My Grandmother's Passing
Chapter 5 3 My Father's Flag
Chapter 6 4 Growing Up in Little Rock
Chapter 7 5 Pinay White Woman
Part 8 II: Performing Whiteness
Chapter 9 6 The American Celebration of Whiteness
Chapter 10 7 The King of Whiteness
Chapter 11 8 "Whitie" and "Dyke": Constructions of Identities in the Classroom
Part 12 III: Identity and Privilege
Chapter 13 9 White Ideas
Chapter 14 10 Despising an Identity They Taught Me to Claim
Chapter 15 11 The Other Colors of Whiteness: A Travelogue
Part 16 Epilogue
Part 17 Related Reading
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Contributors

Product details

Published 17 Nov 1999
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 144
ISBN 9781461621881
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Chris J. Cuomo

Anthology Editor

Kim Q. Hall

Kim Q. Hall is professor of philosophy at Appalach…

Contributor

Alison Bailey

Jessica Krim is associate professor, chair, and se…

Contributor

Bat Ami Bar-On

Contributor

Lisa Tessman

Contributor

Naomi Zack

Naomi Zack is Distinguished Professor of Philosoph…

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