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The Construction of Whiteness : An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496805591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Construction of WhitenessDDC classification:
  • 305.800973
LOC classification:
  • HT1575 .C66 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Battle over Racial Identity in Popular and Legal Cultures, 1810-1860 -- 2. Restitution Claims for Wrongful Enslavement and the Doctrine of the Master's Good Faith -- 3. Emancipation from Whiteness: Witnessing Disability and Jubilee -- 4. Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: The Decline of One-Drop Reasoning in Jurisprudence after 1980 -- 5. Charles W. Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Problem of Citizenship -- 6. Making Whiteness in Reenactments of Slavery -- 7. About Schmidt's Whiteness: The Emotional Landscapes of WASP Masculinity -- 8. Hegemonic Whiteness: From Structure and Agency to Identity Allegiance -- 9. Theorizing White Racial Trauma and Its Remedies -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Battle over Racial Identity in Popular and Legal Cultures, 1810-1860 -- 2. Restitution Claims for Wrongful Enslavement and the Doctrine of the Master's Good Faith -- 3. Emancipation from Whiteness: Witnessing Disability and Jubilee -- 4. Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: The Decline of One-Drop Reasoning in Jurisprudence after 1980 -- 5. Charles W. Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Problem of Citizenship -- 6. Making Whiteness in Reenactments of Slavery -- 7. About Schmidt's Whiteness: The Emotional Landscapes of WASP Masculinity -- 8. Hegemonic Whiteness: From Structure and Agency to Identity Allegiance -- 9. Theorizing White Racial Trauma and Its Remedies -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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