White Women, Race Matters

The Social Construction of Whiteness
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-415-10510-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, practices and assumptions concerning racism and gender relations. Supported by extracts from in-depth life history interviews, White Women, Race Matters provides valuable course material.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frankenburg, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Points of Origin, Points of Departure 2. White on White: The Interviewees and the Method 3. Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race 4. Race, Sex, and Intimacy I: Mapping a Discourse 5. Race, Sex, and Intimacy II: Interracial Couples and Interracial Parenting 6. Thinking Through Race 7. Questions of Culture and Belonging Epilogue: Racism, Antiracism, and the Meaning of Whiteness

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Frankenberg is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis.