The Making And Unmaking Of Whiteness Birgit Brander Rasmussen Eric Klinenberg Irene J Nexica Matt Wray by Birgit Brander Rasmussen; Eric Klinenberg; Irene J. Nexica; Matt Wray 9780822327301, 0822327309 instant download after payment.

With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative global racisms, & transnational white identity, the geographical reach of the volume is significant & broad. Dalton Conley writes on “How I Learned to Be White.” Allan Bérubé discusses the intersection of gay identity & whiteness, & Mab Segrest describes the spiritual price white people pay for living in a system of white supremacy. Other pieces examine the utility of whiteness as a critical term for social analysis & contextualize different attempts at antiracist activism. 

In a razor-sharp introduction, the editors not only raise provocative questions about the intellectual, social, & political goals of those interested in the study of whiteness but assess several of the topic’s major recurrent themes: the visibility of whiteness (or the lack thereof); the “emptiness” of whiteness as a category of identification; & conceptions of whiteness as a structural privilege, a harbinger of violence, or an institutionalization of European imperialism.

Contributors: William Aal, Allan Bérubé, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Dalton Conley, Troy Duster, Ruth Frankenberg, John Hartigan Jr., Eric Klinenberg, Eric Lott, Irene J. Nexica, Michael Omi, Jasbir Kaur Puar, Mab Segrest, Vron Ware, Howard Winant, Matt Wray