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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Bibliographic Details
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:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 680 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • How whites see themselves
  • How whites see others
  • Whiteness: history's role
  • Whiteness: Law's role
  • Whiteness: culture's role
  • White privilege
  • The ladder of whiteness
  • The color line: multiracial people and "passing for white"
  • Biology and pseudoscience
  • White consciousness, white power
  • What then shall we do? a role for whites.