White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of WhitenessU of Minnesota Press, 1993 - 289 pages |
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... narratives . First , feminist scholars , mainly women of color , engaged in the painstaking work of refracting gender through the lenses of race and culture : examining , for example , how constructions of womanhood have always been ...
... narratives . First , feminist scholars , mainly women of color , engaged in the painstaking work of refracting gender through the lenses of race and culture : examining , for example , how constructions of womanhood have always been ...
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... . My assumption here is one I've held since I first came to politics in the 1970s : that knowledge about a situation is a critical tool in dismantling it . Theorizing Race In analyzing the life narratives of white women 10 INTRODUCTION.
... . My assumption here is one I've held since I first came to politics in the 1970s : that knowledge about a situation is a critical tool in dismantling it . Theorizing Race In analyzing the life narratives of white women 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... narratives that serve as the primary re- source for this book , it is clear that , indeed , race privilege trans- lated directly into forms of social organization that shaped daily life ( for example , the de jure and , later , de facto ...
... narratives that serve as the primary re- source for this book , it is clear that , indeed , race privilege trans- lated directly into forms of social organization that shaped daily life ( for example , the de jure and , later , de facto ...
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... narratives , I have found it helpful to char- acterize as " discursive repertoires " the clusterings of discursive elements upon which the women drew . " Repertoire " captures , for me , something of the way in which strategies for ...
... narratives , I have found it helpful to char- acterize as " discursive repertoires " the clusterings of discursive elements upon which the women drew . " Repertoire " captures , for me , something of the way in which strategies for ...
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... narratives might , I suspect , have read differently had they been gathered somewhere else . For one thing , the expressions of race conflict and the racist discourses that circulated in Santa Cruz County and in the San Francisco Bay ...
... narratives might , I suspect , have read differently had they been gathered somewhere else . For one thing , the expressions of race conflict and the racist discourses that circulated in Santa Cruz County and in the San Francisco Bay ...
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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,