Overview

Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how whiteness works and what it does. With attention to central concepts and the history of whiteness, it explains the four ways in which whiteness works. In its examination of the outward and inward fractures of whiteness, the book sheds light on both its connections with social class and ethnicity and with the 'epistemology of ignorance' and the psychoanalytic. Representing the long career of whiteness on the one hand and investigating its expansion into new areas on the other, Whiteness Fractured reflects the growing maturity of critical whiteness studies. It undertakes a critical analysis of approaches to whiteness and proposes new directions for future action and enquiry. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, intersectionality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and cultural studies.

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Author:   Cynthia Levine-Rasky
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781138250765

ISBN 10:   1138250767
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Framing Whiteness; Chapter 2 Theorizing Whiteness; Chapter 3 Interpreting Whiteness and its Correlates; Chapter 4 Histories of Whiteness; Part 2 Four Ways in Which Whiteness Works; Chapter 5 Normalization and Solipsism; Chapter 6 Controlling Terms of Engagement; Chapter 7 Ideological Commitments; Chapter 8 Exclusionary Practices; Part 3 Outward Fractures: Whiteness and intersectionality; Chapter 9 The Rise of Intersectionality Theory; Chapter 10 Intersectionality Theory and the Analysis of Power; Chapter 11 Intersections between Whiteness and Class; Chapter 12 Intersections between Whiteness and Ethnicity; Chapter 13 Intersections between Whiteness and Jewish Ethnicity; Part 4 Inward Fractures: The Psychic Life of Whiteness; Chapter 14 The Emotionality of Whiteness; Chapter 15 The Epistemology of Ignorance; Chapter 16 The Psychic Turn; Chapter 17 Construction of the Other in Popular Racism; Chapter 18 Psychoanalytic Themes in the Construction of the Racialized Other; Part 5 Approaches to Studying Whiteness; Chapter 19 Critical—Relational—Contextual Revisited; Chapter 20 Whiteness in Popular Culture; Chapter 21 The Paradox of Action;

Reviews

Whiteness Fractured provides a provocative synthesis of the field, all the while offering the author's own perspective on where the field should continue to grow and develop...Whiteness Fractured is an excellent and thought-provoking read, and one that attests to the continued importance of critically engaging with whiteness as a locus of power. Emily Skidmore, Texas Tech University, Journal of American Ethnic History

Whiteness Fractured provides a provocative synthesis of the field, all the while offering the author's own perspective on where the field should continue to grow and develop...Whiteness Fractured is an excellent and thought-provoking read, and one that attests to the continued importance of critically engaging with whiteness as a locus of power. Emily Skidmore, Texas Tech University, Journal of American Ethnic History

Author Information

Cynthia Levine-Rasky is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. She is editor of Working through Whiteness: International Perspectives and co-author of Teaching for Equity and Diversity: Research to Practice.

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