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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782085403321

Autore

Frankenberg Ruth

Titolo

White women, race matters : the social construction of whiteness / / Ruth Frankenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8509-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 289 pages)

Disciplina

305.488034

305.48813

Soggetti

Interracial marriage - United States

Racism - United States

Women, White - United States

Women, White - United States - Social conditions

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Points of Origin, Points of Departure; 2. White on White: The Interviewees and the Method; 3. Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race; 4. Race, Sex, and Intimacy I: Mapping a Discourse; 5. Race, Sex, and Intimacy II: Interracial Couples and Interracial Parenting; 6. Thinking Through Race; 7. Questions of Culture and Belonging; Epilogue: Racism, Antiracism, and the Meaning of Whiteness; Appendix: The Women Who Were Interviewed; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, practices and assumptions concerning racism and gender relations.