Selected Whiteness Studies Sources

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[Maceman]

A Selected Sample of Whiteness Studies Sources

These texts focus on white people's misunderstanding of whiteness and erasure of race in one category: white.

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Alcoff, Linda. "What Should White People Do?" Hypatia 13: 3 (1998): 6-25.

duCille, Anne." The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies" in Joeres and Laslett, 70-108. Fine, Michelle, et. al, eds.. off white: Readings on Race, Power and Society. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Fiskin, Shirley Fisher. "Interrogating ‘Whiteness,’ Complicating ‘Blackness’: Remapping American Culture." American Quarterly 47:3 (Sept 1995): 428-66.

Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Garvey, John, ed. Race Traitor. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. New York: Random House, 1999.

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.

Joeres Ruth-Ellen and Barbara Laslett, eds. The Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship, 1983-1996. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Jordan, Shirley, ed. Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers. New Brunswick, N.J., 1993.

Keating, AnnLouise. "Interrogating ‘Whiteness,’ (De)Constructing ‘Race’." College English 57 (1995): 901-918.

Kincheloe, Joe. "The Struggle to Define and Reinvent Whiteness: a pedagogical analysis. College Literature 26: 3 (1999): 162-94.

Kincheloe, Joe, et. al. eds. White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1996.

Lipsitz, George.The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Temple Univ. Press, 1998.

McIntosh.Peggy. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondances Through Work in Women's Studies." In Race, Class, and Gender. Eds.Anderson and Hill Collins, eds. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1997.

Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell Univ Press, 1997.

Mills, Charles W. Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race

Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness. London: Verso Press, 1991.

Smith, Valerie. Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings. New York: Routledge, 1998.Ware, Vron. Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History. London: Verso, 1992.

Wing, Adrien Katherine, Ed.. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader(Critical America Series) New York Univ Press, 1996.

This resource was contributed by Victoria Boynton.

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[Maceman]

I happened to be perusing the website of my undergrad alma mater (SUNY Cortland), and was stunned to find this page. I just had to share it with my fellow Freepers.

Un-frickin'-believable!

[evolved_rage]

Odd, why is Hating Whitey by David Horowitz not on this list??? Oh yeah, too much truth in it, lest we not explore Black racism in a course on Whiteness..

[CatoRenasci]

Perusing these titles, I would say this was all left-wing, mostly feminist anti-white literature, mounting attacks on whites and their conception of race, rather than anything positive.

[Tacis]

Yeah, but if you read them all, SUNY will award you a Master's degree and you'll be employable in most parts of the public sector.

[CatoRenasci]

Why would I want the degree or the pay cut?

[CatoRenasci]

as Goethe put it in the Prologue to Faust: ...heisse Magister, heisse schon Doktor gar....