Displacing Whiteness : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, Paperback by ...

by Rebecca Aanerud

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Displacing Whiteness : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, Paperback by Frankenberg, Ruth (EDT); Aanerud, Rebecca (CON); Muraleedharan, T. (CON); Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie (CON), ISBN 0822320215, ISBN-13 9780822320210, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singular concept, the essays describe, for instance, African American, Chicana/o, European American, and British experiences of whiteness. The contributors offer critical readings of theory, literature, film and popular culture; ethnographic analyses; explorations of identity formation; and examinations of racism and political process. Essays examine the alarming epidemic of angry white men on both sides of the Atlantic; far-right electoral politics in the UK; underclass white people in Detroit; whiteness in "brownface" in the film Gandhi; the engendering of whiteness in Chicana/o movement discourses; "whiteface" literature; Roland Barthes as a critic of white consciousness; whiteness in the black imagination; the inclusion and exclusion of suburban "brown-skinned white girls"; and

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 1997
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780822320210
• Condition: Fine

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