White Women, Race Matters : The Social Construction of Whiteness.
Title:
White Women, Race Matters : The Social Construction of Whiteness.
Author:
Frankenberg, Ruth.
ISBN:
9780816685097
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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. Supported by extracts from in-depth life history interviews, White Women, Race Matters provides valuable course material.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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