Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial
Berkeley conference of the same name, "The Making and Unmaking of
Whiteness" presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature
of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars,
community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors
are all leaders in the "second wave" of whiteness studies who
collectively aim to combat the historical legacies of white
supremacy and to inform those who seek to understand the changing
nature of white identity, both in the United States and
abroad.
With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative
global racisms, and transnational white identity, the geographical
reach of the volume is significant and broad. Dalton Conley writes
on "How I Learned to Be White." Allan Berube discusses the
intersection of gay identity and whiteness, and 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 and contextualize
different attempts at antiracist activism. In a razor-sharp
introduction, the editors not only raise provocative questions
about the intellectual, social, and 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; and conceptions of whiteness as a structural
privilege, a harbinger of violence, or an institutionalization of
European imperialism.
"Contributors." William Aal, Allan Berube, 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
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