The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Published by Duke University Press 2001

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Edited by: Birgit Brander Rasmussen , Eric Klinenberg , Irene J. Nexica and Matt Wray

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381044

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About this book

A collection of new essays in race theory, drawn from the 4/97 Berkeley conference.

Author / Editor information

Birgit Brander Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University. She is the co-editor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke, 2001).

Eric Klinenberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.

Irene J. Nexica is an independent scholar who studies popular music and culture.

Matt Wray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Reviews

“If for no other reason than that the circulation of racialized power has been and is fractured, multi-faceted, contradictory, and continual, then this collection would be valuable in its attention to the accumulation of the political and disciplinary effects of whiteness. The particular strength of this attention is magnified by the combination of work herein that originates in both academic and other than academic sites. And it is brave work; it proceeds without guarantees of its own outcome, without knowing what questions it might settle.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University

“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

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

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352

eBook

Published: September 7, 2001
ISBN: 9780822381044