Working through whiteness : international perspectives / / edited by Cynthia Levine-Rasky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819434203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-7914-8872-1; 0-585-47517-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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: Whites - Race identity; Whites - Attitudes; Whites - 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, American, British, and Australian scholars, reflecting the broad array of academic inquiry into whiteness in the areas of law, ethics, education, feminism, politics, psychology, sociology, criminology, and social geography. Rarely has knowledge of whiteness as the practice of social domination been drawn from this far and wide. By embracing the leading edge in critical theory, this book is a crucial addition to the growing literature on whiteness.