Critical white studies : looking behind the mirror / edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.

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No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffi...

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Other Authors: Delgado, Richard (Editor)
Stefancic, Jean (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [1997], ©1997.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
White people > Race identity > United States.
White people > United States > Attitudes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Race relations.
White people > Attitudes.
White people > Race identity.
United States.
Ethnische Beziehungen.
Weiße.
USA.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 680 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
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No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffin, David Roediger, Kathleen Heal Cleaver, Noel Ignatiev, Cherrie Moraga, and Reginald Horsman, attack such questions as: *How was whiteness invented, and why?*How has the category whiteness changed over time?*Why did some immigrant groups, such as the Irish and Jews, star.
Note:Electronic resource.
Call Number:E184.A1 C75 1997eb
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (page 664) and index.
ISBN:9781439901519
1439901511
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