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Whiteness in America (Hardcover)
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Whiteness in America (Hardcover)
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When Americans think about race, "white" is often the furthest
thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life
in the United States, from the organization and maintenance of
social structures to an individual's sense of self. White has long
been the invisible default category against which other racial and
ethnic groups are silently compared and marked out as "different."
At the same time, whiteness is itself an active marker that many
bitterly fight to keep distinctive, and the shifting boundaries of
whiteness reflect the nation's history of race relations, right
back to the earliest period of European colonization. One thing
that has remained consistent is that whiteness is a definitive mark
of privilege. Yet, this privilege is differentially experienced
across a broad and eclectic spectrum, as is white identity itself.
In order to uncover the ways in which its rigid structures and
complicated understandings permeate American life, this book
examines some of the many varieties of what it means to be white -
across geography, class, and social context - and the culture,
social movements, and changing demographics of whiteness in
America.
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