Ruth Frankenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis and is the author o*f White Women, Race Matte*rs.

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"This collection will be a substantial contribution to a current and growing body of materials investigating whiteness. As Frankenberg and the contributors know, recent work--even work that brackets whiteness in terms of class--has made little effort to specify the stunning range of particularity in the ways whiteness is experienced. This collection begins such a specification."--Dana D. Nelson, University of Kentucky

Résumé
Makes a contribution to the study of race dominance. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singular concept, this book includes essays that describe, for instance, African American, Chicana, European American, and British experiences of whiteness.

Contenu

Introduction: Local Whiteness, Localizing Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg 1
Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature / Rebecca Aanerud 35
Rereading Ghandi / T. Muraleedharan 60
Theorizing White Consciousness for a Post-Empire World: Barthes, Fanon, and the Rhetoric of Love / Chéla Sandoval 86
On the Social Construction of Whiteness within Selected Chicana/o Discourse / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian 107
Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination / bell hooks 165
Locating White Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. 180
Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities / France Winddance Twine 214
Laboring under Whiteness / Phil Cohen 244
Island Racism: Gender, Place, and White Power / Vron Ware 283
Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990s / David Wellman 311
Bibliography 333
Contributors 349
Index 351