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" Displacing whiteness : "
edited by Ruth Frankenberg.
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BL
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846988
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Displacing whiteness : : essays in social and cultural criticism /\ edited by Ruth Frankenberg.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham, NC :: Duke University Press,, 1997.
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vi, 360 pages ;; 24 cm
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0822320118
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: 0822320215
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: 9780822320111
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: 9780822320210
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : local whitenesses, localizing whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- Fictions of whiteness : speaking the names of whiteness in U.S. literature / Rebecca Aanerud -- Rereading Gandhi / T. Muraleedharan -- Theorizing white consciousness for a post-empire world : Barthes, Fanon, and the rhetoric of love / Chéla Sandoval -- On the social construction of whiteness within selected Chicana/o discourses / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian -- Representing whiteness in the black imagination / bell hooks -- Locating white Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. -- Brown-skinned white girls : class, culture, and the construction of white identity in suburban communities / France Winddance Twine -- Laboring under whiteness / Phil Cohen -- Island racism : gender, place, and white power / Vron Ware -- Minstrel shows, affirmative action talk, and angry white men : marking racial otherness in the 1990s / David Wellman.
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"Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singular concept, the essays describe, for instance, African American, Chicana/o, European American, and British experiences of whiteness. The contributors offer critical readings of theory, literature, film, and popular culture; ethnographic analyses; explorations of identity formation; and examinations of racism and political process. Essays examine the alarming epidemic of angry white men on both sides of the Atlantic; far-right electoral politics in the UK; underclass white people in Detroit; whiteness in "brownface" in the film Gandhi; the engendering of whiteness in Chicana/o movement discourses; "whiteface" literature; Roland Barthes as a critic of white consciousness; whiteness in the black imagination; the inclusion and exclusion of suburban "brown-skinned white girls"; and the slippery relationships between culture, race, and nation in the history of whiteness. Displacing Whiteness breaks new ground by specifying how whiteness lived, engaged, appropriated, and theorized in a range of geographical locations and historical moments, representing a necessary advance in analytical thinking surrounding the burgeoning study of race and culture."--Jacket.
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Eurocentrism.
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Racism.
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Whites-- Attitudes.
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Eurocentrism.
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Racism.
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Whites-- Attitudes.
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Rassenfrage.
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Rassenfrage.
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Weiße.
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Weiße.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8
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| LC Classification
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HT1523.D57 1997
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HD 370rvk
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MS 3530rvk
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Frankenberg, Ruth.
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