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The Meaning of Whitemen (Paperback, New edition)
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The Meaning of Whitemen (Paperback, New edition)
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A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, "the
whiteman" has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face
of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on
the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua
New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding
how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes
endure in the face of counterevidence.
While Papua New Guinea's resident white population has been
severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman
remains a significant racial and cultural other here--not only as
an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a
foil for people's evaluations of themselves within vernacular
frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus
other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be
a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures.
A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western
society, "The Meaning of Whitemen" turns traditional ethnography to
the purpose of understanding how others see us.
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