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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780238403321

Titolo

Working through whiteness [[electronic resource] ] : international perspectives / / edited by Cynthia Levine-Rasky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8872-1

0-585-47517-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

Altri autori (Persone)

Levine-RaskyCynthia

Disciplina

305.8/034

Soggetti

White people - Race identity

White people - Attitudes

White people - Psychology

Women, White - Race identity

Women, White - Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: I. Contexts of Whiteness -- 1. Whiteness and The Great Law of Peace 25 -- David Bedford and W. Thom Workman -- 2. "The Iniquitous Practice of Women": Prostitution -- and the Making of White Spaces in British Columbia, -- 1898-1905 43 -- Renisa Mawani -- 3. A White World? Whiteness and the Meaning -- of Modernity in Latin America and Japan 69 -- Alastair Bonnett -- 4. White Noise: Australia's Struggle -- with Multiculturalism 107 -- Andrew Jakubowicz -- II. Studies in Whiteness -- 5. A Room without a View: Social Distance -- and the Structuring of Privileged Identity 129 -- Michael Alan Sacks and Marika Lindholm -- 6. Looking at the Invisible: A Q-Methodological -- Investigation of Young White Women's Constructions -- of Whiteness 153 -- Stephanie Kellington -- 7. Building a Home on a Border: How Single White -- Women Raising Multiracial Children Construct -- Racial Meaning 179 -- Jennifer A. Reich -- 8. The Impact of Whiteness on the Culture of Law: -- From Theory to Practice 209 -- L. A. Visano -- m. Pedagogies for Whiteness -- 9. "In Whitest England": New Subject Positions -- for White Youth in



the Post-Imperial Moment 241 -- Anoop Nayak -- 10. When the Big Snow Melts: White Women Teaching -- in Canada's North 269 -- Helen Harper -- 11. Developing Feminist Pedagogical Practices -- to Complicate Whiteness and Work with -- Defensiveness 289 -- Jessica Ringrose -- 12. Critical/Relational/Contextual: Toward a Model -- for Studying Whiteness 319 -- Cynthia Levine-Rasky.