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Record Nr.

UNISA996582066703316

Autore

Hill Mike <1964->

Titolo

After whiteness [[electronic resource] ] : unmaking an American majority / / Mike Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8147-7339-7

0-8147-4459-1

1-4175-6853-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Cultural front (Series)

Disciplina

305.809/073

Soggetti

White people - Race identity - United States

Men, White - United States - Psychology

Heterosexual men - United States - Psychology

National characteristics, American

Multiculturalism - United States

Group identity - Political aspects - United States

Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

United States Race relations

United States Census, 2000

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 (p. [217]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: After Whiteness Eve; Part I: Incalculable Community: Multiracialism, U.S. Census 2000, and the Crisis of the Liberal State; Labor Formalism; Dissensus 2000; The Will to Category; Rebirth of a Nation?; America, Not Counting Class; Part II: A Fascism of Benevolence: God and Family in the Father-Shaped Void; Of Communism and Castration; Muscular Multiculturalism; When Color is the Father; A Certain Gesture of Virility; The Eros of Warfare; Part III: Race Among Ruins: Whiteness, Work, and Writing in the New University; Between Jobs and Work

The Multiversity's Diversity After Whiteness Studies; Multitude or Culturalism?; How Color Saved the Canon; Notes; Index; About the



Author

Sommario/riassunto

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ""Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's