White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of WhitenessU of Minnesota Press, 1993 - 289 pages |
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... cultural practices that are usually unmarked and un- named . This book seeks to begin exploring , mapping , and ex ... difference and inequality : class , culture , ethnicity , gender , and sexuality . From there , I hoped to comprehend ...
... cultural practices that are usually unmarked and un- named . This book seeks to begin exploring , mapping , and ex ... difference and inequality : class , culture , ethnicity , gender , and sexuality . From there , I hoped to comprehend ...
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... cultural difference . ( I say almost the first time because the cul- ture shock of moving to the United States from Britain at the age of twenty - one had opened my eyes to the latter . ) Uniting the divergent experiences of being both ...
... cultural difference . ( I say almost the first time because the cul- ture shock of moving to the United States from Britain at the age of twenty - one had opened my eyes to the latter . ) Uniting the divergent experiences of being both ...
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... cultural difference , and how their descriptions reflect different moments in the history of race . Racial naming is also in part an effect of communities ' own col- lective struggles to claim or rearticulate identity . The shifts in ...
... cultural difference , and how their descriptions reflect different moments in the history of race . Racial naming is also in part an effect of communities ' own col- lective struggles to claim or rearticulate identity . The shifts in ...
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... difference . Central to competing analyses of race have been assertions of , and challenges to , a range of claims about differences between people , including physiological or genetic dif- ferences , cultural differences , and differences ...
... difference . Central to competing analyses of race have been assertions of , and challenges to , a range of claims about differences between people , including physiological or genetic dif- ferences , cultural differences , and differences ...
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... cultural critics are arguing that the United States is being overrun by the new orthodoxy of " multiculturalism " —ostensibly a prod- uct of race cognizance . But the situation is much more compli- cated than conservative critics would ...
... cultural critics are arguing that the United States is being overrun by the new orthodoxy of " multiculturalism " —ostensibly a prod- uct of race cognizance . But the situation is much more compli- cated than conservative critics would ...
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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
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African American anti-Semitism antiracism antiracist argued articulated Beth Beth's Black California Cathy Cathy's chapter Chela Sandoval Chicano childhood Chris consciously constructed context cultural difference cultural practices Debby described discursive repertoires domestic workers dominant Donna dualistic environment essentialist racism ethnic evasion Evelyn example experience father feel felt feminism Frieda friends gender Ginny Gloria Anzaldúa grew high school husband identity interracial couples interracial relationships Irene Italian American Jeanine Jewish Latino lesbian linked married means Mexican Mexican American middle-class Minnie Bruce Pratt modes mother moved multiracial narratives Native American neighborhood normative parents partner political question race cognizance race difference race privilege racial order racially mixed relation Sandy Alvarez Santa Cruz County sense sexual shaped social structure Suzie Suzie's talk things thinking through race United white culture white feminists white women woman women I interviewed women of color working-class
Fréquemment cités
Page 240 - The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Page 269 - David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991); Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White...
Page 1 - First, o 1 o whiteness is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege. Second, it is a "standpoint," a place from which white people look at ourselves , at others , and at society. ' Third, "whiteness" refers to a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
Page 6 - Whiteness refers to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced and moreover are intrinsically linked to unfolding relations of domination. Naming 'whiteness' displaces it from the unmarked, unnamed status that is itself an effect of its dominance. Among the effects on white people both of race privilege and of the dominance of whiteness are their seeming normativity, their structured invisibility
Page 147 - is good only insofar as their [people of color] 'coloredness' can be bracketed and ignored, and this bracketing is contingent on the ability or the decision— in fact, the virtue — of a 'noncolored'— or white— self. Color-blindness, despite the best intentions of its adherents, in this sense preserves the power structure inherent in essentialist...
Page 1 - In the same way that both men's and women's lives are shaped by their gender, and that both heterosexual and lesbian women's experiences in the world are marked by their sexuality, white people and people of color live racially structured lives. In other words, any system of differentiation shapes those on whom it bestows privilege as well as those it oppresses. White people are "raced,