The construction of whiteness : an interdisciplinary analysis of race formation and the meaning of a White identity

The construction of whiteness : an interdisciplinary analysis of race formation and the meaning of a White identity /

"This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to exam...

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Other Authors: Middleton, Stephen (Editor), Roediger, David R. (Editor), Shaffer, Donald M., 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Subjects:
White people > Race identity > United States.
United States > Race relations.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Battle over racial identity in popular and legal cultures, 1810-1860 / Stephen Middleton
  • Restitution claims for wrongful enslavement and the doctrine of the master's good faith / Robert Westley
  • Emancipation from whiteness: witnessing disability and jubilee / David R. Roediger
  • Whiteness in the twenty-first century: the decline of one-drop reasoning in jurisprudence after 1980 / Erica Cooper
  • Charles W. Chesnutt, whiteness, and the problem of citizenship / Donald M. Shaffer
  • Making whiteness in reenactments of slavery / Sadhana Bery
  • About Schmidt's whiteness: the emotional landscapes of WASP masculinity / Tim Engles
  • Hegemonic whiteness : from structure and agency to identity allegiance / Matthew W. Hughey
  • Theorizing white racial trauma and its remedies / Becky Thompson and Veronica T. Watson.

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