White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of WhitenessU of Minnesota Press, 1993 - 289 pages |
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... modes of visibility of racism , race difference , and whiteness . To look at the social construction of whiteness , then , is to look head - on at a site of dominance . ( And it may be more difficult for white people to say " Whiteness ...
... modes of visibility of racism , race difference , and whiteness . To look at the social construction of whiteness , then , is to look head - on at a site of dominance . ( And it may be more difficult for white people to say " Whiteness ...
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... mode of expression of racism is more desirable , or more unpleasant in its effects , than the other . Two white women explicitly singled out African Americans as " racial others , " in contrast to Latinos and Asians , viewed as ...
... mode of expression of racism is more desirable , or more unpleasant in its effects , than the other . Two white women explicitly singled out African Americans as " racial others , " in contrast to Latinos and Asians , viewed as ...
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... modes of thinking through race , I should stress that the transitions from one to the next cannot be viewed as paradigm shifts in any total sense , for elements of all three can be found in today's literature on race and racism in the ...
... modes of thinking through race , I should stress that the transitions from one to the next cannot be viewed as paradigm shifts in any total sense , for elements of all three can be found in today's literature on race and racism in the ...
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... modes of know- ing associated with racial domination , there continue to be close ties in the United States between racist and colonial discourses , as well as between constructions of whiteness and of Westernness . Such ties were ...
... modes of know- ing associated with racial domination , there continue to be close ties in the United States between racist and colonial discourses , as well as between constructions of whiteness and of Westernness . Such ties were ...
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... modes of " think- ing through race , " however , has been showing the continuities across discursive repertoires from ( ostensibly ) " left " or " progres- sive " to apparently more conservative : the traces of essentialist racism ...
... modes of " think- ing through race , " however , has been showing the continuities across discursive repertoires from ( ostensibly ) " left " or " progres- sive " to apparently more conservative : the traces of essentialist racism ...
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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
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Page 240 - The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Page 269 - David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991); Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White...
Page 1 - First, o 1 o whiteness is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege. Second, it is a "standpoint," a place from which white people look at ourselves , at others , and at society. ' Third, "whiteness" refers to a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
Page 6 - Whiteness refers to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced and moreover are intrinsically linked to unfolding relations of domination. Naming 'whiteness' displaces it from the unmarked, unnamed status that is itself an effect of its dominance. Among the effects on white people both of race privilege and of the dominance of whiteness are their seeming normativity, their structured invisibility
Page 147 - is good only insofar as their [people of color] 'coloredness' can be bracketed and ignored, and this bracketing is contingent on the ability or the decision— in fact, the virtue — of a 'noncolored'— or white— self. Color-blindness, despite the best intentions of its adherents, in this sense preserves the power structure inherent in essentialist...
Page 1 - In the same way that both men's and women's lives are shaped by their gender, and that both heterosexual and lesbian women's experiences in the world are marked by their sexuality, white people and people of color live racially structured lives. In other words, any system of differentiation shapes those on whom it bestows privilege as well as those it oppresses. White people are "raced,