White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of WhitenessU of Minnesota Press, 1993 - 289 pages |
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... sense of contradiction , a need to know more . As a white feminist , I knew that I had not previously known I was " being racist " and that I had never set out to " be racist . " I also knew that these desires and intentions had had ...
... sense of contradiction , a need to know more . As a white feminist , I knew that I had not previously known I was " being racist " and that I had never set out to " be racist . " I also knew that these desires and intentions had had ...
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The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg. sense that we constantly felt that at any second we might err again with respect to racism , that we didn't know the rules and there- fore didn't know how to prevent that happening ...
The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg. sense that we constantly felt that at any second we might err again with respect to racism , that we didn't know the rules and there- fore didn't know how to prevent that happening ...
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... sense of self . The " and " in " white women and racism " implies , but does not really define , a link between the two terms . The need to speak of whiteness further specifies what is at stake in speaking of racism in relation to white ...
... sense of self . The " and " in " white women and racism " implies , but does not really define , a link between the two terms . The need to speak of whiteness further specifies what is at stake in speaking of racism in relation to white ...
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... sense , the converse of that commitment ( and also an ap- proach adopted by feminists ) : the belief that women's daily life experiences can only be adequately understood by " mapping " them onto broader social processes . Third , then ...
... sense , the converse of that commitment ( and also an ap- proach adopted by feminists ) : the belief that women's daily life experiences can only be adequately understood by " mapping " them onto broader social processes . Third , then ...
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... sense . " The first of these was a critique of " objectivity " or " distance " as the best stances from which to generate knowledge . For , feminists argued , there is a link between where one stands in society and what one perceives ...
... sense . " The first of these was a critique of " objectivity " or " distance " as the best stances from which to generate knowledge . For , feminists argued , there is a link between where one stands in society and what one perceives ...
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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,