Breaking the code of good intentions : everyday forms of whiteness / Melanie E.L. Bush.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bush, Melanie E. L., 1955-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Racism > United States.
White people > United States > Attitudes.
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
National characteristics, American.
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Physical Description:xxiii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The here and now
  • White, black, and places "in-between"
  • American identity, democracy, the flag, and the foreign-born experience
  • Making sense, nonsense, and no sense of race and rules
  • Poverty, wealth, discrimination, and privilege
  • Cracks in the wall of whiteness : desperately seeking agency and optimism.