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

• Autore: Frankenberg Ruth
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 289 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.488034; 305.48813
• Soggetto topico: Interracial marriage - United States; Racism - United States; Women, White - United States; Women, White - United States - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: White women, race matters
• ISBN: 0-8166-8509-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782085403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II