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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786343503321

Titolo

Off white : readings on power, privilege, and resistance / / [edited by] Michelle Fine. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-136-07778-2

1-283-84251-3

1-136-07770-7

0-203-62147-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FineMichelle

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Discrimination in education - United States

Education - Social aspects - United States

Race awareness - United States

Racism - United States

Social classes - United States

White people - Race identity - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Off white Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Constructing; 1 Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary U.S. Racial Politics; 2 How Did Jews Become White Folks?; 3 Behind the Gates: Social Splitting and the "Other"; 4 Black Infants and White Men: Tied into a Single Garment of Destiny; 5 Keeping the White Queen in Play; 6 Making White Right: Race and the Politics of Educational Reform; Living; 7 Whites Are from Mars, O. J. Is from Planet Hollywood: Blacks Don't Support O. J. and Whites Just Don't Get It

8 Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class9 Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings 1982-2001; 10 Excavating a "Moment in History": Privilege and Loss inside White Working-Class Masculinity; 11 Affirmative Action: Diversity, Merit, and the Benefit of White People; Representing; 12 Race, Suburban Resentment, and the Representation of the Inner



City in Contemporary Film and Television; 13 The Revolution of Little Girls; 14 Representations of Race and Social Responsibility: News Stories about Neglect and Failure to Protect

15 Finding a Place to Pee and Other Struggles of Ethnography: Reflections on Race and Method16 White Experimenters, White Blood, and Other White Conditions: Locating the Psychologist's Race; Educating; 17 The Achievement (K)not: Whiteness and "Black Underachievement"; 18 Witnessing Whiteness/Gathering Intelligence; 19 Color Blindness in Teacher Education: An Optical Delusion; 20 Resisting Diversity: An Alaskan Case of Institutional Struggle; 21 "We Didn't See Color": The Salience of Color Blindness in Desegregated Schools

22 Narrating the Multicultural Nation: Rosa Parks and the White Mythology of the Civil Rights MovementContesting; 23 Through the Looking Glass: Implications of Studying Whiteness for Feminist Methods; 24 Racism and "Whiteness" in Transitions to Peace: Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Justice; 25 Racial Wrongs and Restitutions: The Role of Guilt and Other Group-Based Emotions; 26 White Educators as Allies: Moving from Awareness to Action; 27 The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility

28 White Antiracism in Multiracial Families29 Whiteness of a Different Color?; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.