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Autore |
Levine-Rasky Cynthia |
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Titolo |
Whiteness fractured / / by Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Queen's University, Canada |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-76463-4 |
1-134-76456-1 |
1-4094-6358-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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White people - Race identity |
Race relations |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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section I. Introduction -- section II. Four ways in which whiteness works -- section III. Outward fractures : whiteness and intersectionality -- section IV. Inward fractures : the psychic life of whiteness -- section V. Approaches to studying whiteness. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how whiteness works and what it does. With attention to central concepts and the history of whiteness, it explains the four ways in which whiteness works. In its examination of the outward and inward fractures of whiteness, the book sheds light on both its connections with social class and ethnicity and |
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