The Making Of White American Identity
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The Making Of White American Identity
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Author : Ron Eyerman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-06
The Making Of White American Identity written by Ron Eyerman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-06 with Social Science categories.
An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the United States. Drawing upon his previous work on the formation of African American identity, as well as cultural trauma theory, collective memory, and social movements, he reveals how and under what conditions such a collective identification emerges, as well as how the mobilization of collective action around an ideology of whiteness and white superiority. Eyerman explores how the American identity was, and is still being established, through both historical and more recent events, including the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the election of a Black president, the Charlottesville confrontation, and the violent conflict at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He further shows how each event revitalized the trauma narratives stemming from the nation's founding tensions, mobilizing social forces around the idea of white superiority and white consciousness. Tracing the historical contexts and social conditions under which individuals and groups move through this process, the author also looks forward at the prospects of the ideology of white supremacy as a political force in the United States.
White Identity Politics
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Author : Ashley Jardina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
White Identity Politics written by Ashley Jardina and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with History categories.
Amidst discontent over diversity, racial identity is a lens through which many US white Americans now view the political world.
The Making Of White American Identity
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Author : Ron Eyerman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Making Of White American Identity written by Ron Eyerman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Mass media and race relations categories.
"The Making of White American Identity traces the development of whiteness as a distinctive collective identification, from the early colonial period through to the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The theory of Cultural Trauma provides the framework for mapping and analyzing this process. The central argument is that whiteness is a mobilizing ideology, articulated and communicated over generations by individuals and carrier groups that make use of various means of mass media, from traditional print and visual media to the internet. In analyzing this transmission, hot and cold forms and thick and thin identification are distinguished. Hot forms carry clear ideological messages, cool forms are more subtle, such as genres of country music and novels and films. Memorials, like those to the Confederacy, lie somewhere in between. The conflict over their removal, such as occurred in Charlottesville in 2017, is a key event in this analysis. The final chapter sums up the argument and discusses the future of whiteness in the U.S., when those who identify as white no longer constitute the majority of the population"--
White Identity
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Author : Jared Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
White Identity written by Jared Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Race awareness categories.
"Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that: People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart. ; Study after scientific study suggests that racial identity is an inherent part of human nature. ; Diversity of race, language, religion, etc. is not a strength for America but a source of chronic tension and conflict. ; Non-whites--especially blacks and Hispanics but now even Asians--openly take pride in their race and put group interests ahead of those of the country as a whole. ; Only whites continue to believe that it is possible or even desirable to transcend race and try to make the United States a nation in which race does not matter. Taylor argues that America must reassess dated assumptions, and that we need policies based on a realistic understanding of race, not on fantasies. Most provocatively, Taylor argues that whites must exercise the same rights as other groups--that they must be unafraid of considering their own legitimate interests. He concludes by warning whites that if they do not defend their interests they will be marginalized by groups that do not hesitate to assert themselves, numerically and culturally. The culmination of 25 years of writing about race, immigration, and America's future, this is Jared Taylor's best and most complete statement of why it is vitally important for whites to defend their legitimate group interests."--Amazon.com.
Whiteness
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Author : Thomas K. Nakayama
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1999
Whiteness written by Thomas K. Nakayama and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
Whiteness is a collection of essays that employ a range of approaches to understanding whiteness as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Also included are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness.
Becoming And Unbecoming White
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Author : Christine Clark
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1999-02-28
Becoming And Unbecoming White written by Christine Clark and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-28 with Education categories.
Describes the racist tendency of Whites to always and forever to center the discussion of virtually any subject on whiteness, and suggests how to get past this worldview.
The Making And Unmaking Of Whiteness
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Author : Birgit Brander Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-07
The Making And Unmaking Of Whiteness written by Birgit Brander Rasmussen and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-07 with Social Science categories.
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the “second wave” of whiteness studies who collectively aim to combat the historical legacies of white supremacy and to inform those who seek to understand the changing nature of white identity, both in the United States and abroad. With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative global racisms, and transnational white identity, the geographical reach of the volume is significant and broad. Dalton Conley writes on “How I Learned to Be White.” Allan Bérubé discusses the intersection of gay identity and whiteness, and Mab Segrest describes the spiritual price white people pay for living in a system of white supremacy. Other pieces examine the utility of whiteness as a critical term for social analysis and contextualize different attempts at antiracist activism. In a razor-sharp introduction, the editors not only raise provocative questions about the intellectual, social, and political goals of those interested in the study of whiteness but assess several of the topic’s major recurrent themes: the visibility of whiteness (or the lack thereof); the “emptiness” of whiteness as a category of identification; and conceptions of whiteness as a structural privilege, a harbinger of violence, or an institutionalization of European imperialism. Contributors. William Aal, Allan Bérubé, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Dalton Conley, Troy Duster, Ruth Frankenberg, John Hartigan Jr., Eric Klinenberg, Eric Lott, Irene J. Nexica, Michael Omi, Jasbir Kaur Puar, Mab Segrest, Vron Ware, Howard Winant, Matt Wray
Making The White Man S West
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Author : Jason Eric Pierce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Making The White Man S West written by Jason Eric Pierce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with British Americans categories.
"The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man's West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical 'whiteness, ' he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a 'dumping ground' for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a 'refuge for real whites.' The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man's West, a place ideally suited for 'real' Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man's West shows how these two visions of the West--as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge--shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today"--
Meaning Making Internalized Racism And African American Identity
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Author : Jas M. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-09-07
Meaning Making Internalized Racism And African American Identity written by Jas M. Sullivan and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-07 with Social Science categories.
Presents research on how variations in African Americans racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression. Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first section explores meaning-making, or the importance of holding one type of racial-cultural identity as compared to another. It looks at a wide range of topics, including stereotypes, spirituality, appearance, gender and intersectionalities, masculinity, and more. The second section examines the different expressions of internalized racism that arise when the pressure of oppression is too great, and includes such topics as identity orientations, self-esteem, colorism, and linked fate. Grounded in psychology, the research presented here makes the case for understanding Black identity as wide ranging in content, subject to multiple interpretations, and linked to both positive mental health as well as varied forms of internalized racism. With its impressive and varied research base, this is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject of racial identity. Scott L. Graves Jr., Duquesne University
Impossible Whiteness
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Author : Tarah Ann Demant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Impossible Whiteness written by Tarah Ann Demant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Electronic dissertations categories.
In Impossible Whiteness, I reveal whiteness--though oftentimes still an implicit critical assumption of normalcy--as a complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and F. Scott Fitzgerald trace these standards of whiteness and the inevitable failure of such racial (and implicitly gendered) refinement. Though critical literature has been slow to consider the role of race for these authors, I reveal them as actively participating in contemporary dialogues of race--whiteness particularly--and outline the ways in which they construct and deconstruct American whiteness. While eugenicists and nativists warned of the need to restrict whiteness, the authors in this study show that such rarefaction of whiteness undermines the very standard it seeks to protect by making whiteness impossible. American whiteness is neither cohesive nor constant, and in the first chapter, I trace the varying, oppositional discourses of American whiteness at the turn of the century through Wharton's The Age of Innocence, with particular attention to the competing modes of femininity that challenge a stable white identity. In Chapter Two, I turn to the specifically gendered restrictions implicit in whiteness and argue that Wharton's The House of Mirth reveals the impossibility of white racial purity for women and shows how it is the gender restrictiveness of whiteness that leaves it vulnerable to the racial Other it seeks to exclude. The racial Other is the focus of my third chapter, and in Yezierska's Arrogant Beggar and Salome of the Tenements, the immigrant racial Other may remain alienated from an American identity yoked to whiteness, but also begins to build a national identity apart from whiteness. Such cracks in the façade of coherent national whiteness are at the root of Chapter Four, in which I trace the fear of racial destabilization in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the specific threat such destabilization poses for white, male American identity. It is such intersectionality that ultimately undoes whiteness, and in Chapter Five I trace the inevitable failure of whiteness too burdened with an explicitly national, gendered standard, as we see in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. Seen together, these authors chart a growing disillusionment with and final failure of whiteness, the interconnected nature of whiteness and gender, and demonstrate the growing need to address whiteness in American literature.