Speaking the silence of whiteness.(living room)

Journal of Australian Studies;  September 1, 2003 ;   Durie, Jane;   787 words ......real problem with this idea of experiencing whiteness because I don't think I ever have experienced...termed the invisibility and normativity of whiteness. (2) In societies where whiteness is not seen as a marker of difference, the...

'Whiteness' emerges as study trend

University Wire;  October 3, 2002 ;   Joanne Park;   787 words ......schools across the nation, courses on whiteness are challenging the way scholars think...Morgan initially proposed the idea of a whiteness studies course in 1995, his request was...matter. His course, Special Topics in Whiteness, is now being offered this fall. His...

Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial...

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society;  December 1, 2002 ;   McCaul, Sally;   679 words ...Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny...publication, The Cultivation of Whiteness, provides a timely contribution...growing literature concerned with whiteness. The focus of the book is the role...

`Beyond the Whiteness' of America examines attitudes toward race

New York Amsterdam News;  November 30, 1996 ;   Jr. Okoampa-Ahoffe, Kwame;   787 words ......Kwame New York Amsterdam News 11-30-1996 `Beyond the Whiteness' of America examines attitudes toward race. In her latest memoir, titled "Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness" (Duke University Press, 1996), the white mother...

The Struggle to Define and Reinvent Whiteness: A Pedagogical Analysis.

College Literature;  September 22, 1999 ;   Kincheloe, Joe L.;   787 words ...In the emerging sub-discipline of whiteness studies scholars seem better equipped to explain white privilege than to define whiteness itself. Such a dilemma is understandable...no one at this point really knows what whiteness is, most observers agree that it is intimately...

Whiteness and the Performance of Race in American Ballroom Dance

Journal of American Folklore;  January 1, 2007 ;   Bosse, Joanna;   787 words ......site where problematic constructions of whiteness and otherness are embodied in performance...classifications of "modern" and "Latin," whiteness is made universal and normative while...classifications are manifestations of whiteness, mirrored reflections of one another...

On Whiteness in T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain.

CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  September 22, 2003 ;   Hicks, Heather J.;   787 words ......the critical enterprise loosely termed Whiteness emergent Studies has generated controversy...insistence that the racial category of whiteness be demystified--that its hegemonic contrivances...that systematically bring attention to whiteness and its constituent social elements...

INTRODUCTION: SITUATING WHITENESS IN FAULKNER STUDIES, SITUATING FAULKNER...

The Faulkner Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;   Watson, Jay;   787 words ...Why whiteness? The emergence of critical whiteness studies over the last decade and a half has engendered its...spotlight? Richard Dyer, one of the most influential voices in whiteness studies, has labeled this "the green light problem": "Writing...

Definition of 'whiteness' evolved over time, Brown U. panel says

University Wire;  March 11, 2003 ;   Julia Zuckerman;   624 words ......PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The definition of whiteness has evolved over the course of American...discussion, The Historical Construction of Whiteness. Panelists said the study of race should...understand race without understanding whiteness, said Jennifer Roth-Gordon, a post-doctoral...

U. Arkansas professor to offer course on whiteness

University Wire;  April 26, 2002 ;   Jose Lopez;   470 words ......sociology professor, will teach the first course on whiteness at the UA. Whiteness is the philosophical idea white people have certain...philosophical and historical approach to find how whiteness has become embedded in history as a philosophical...

After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority.(Book review)

CLIO;  June 22, 2006 ;   Olson, Joel;   787 words ...After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority. By Mike...University Press, 2004. xii + 268 pages. Poor whiteness studies. No one loves it anymore. It...influential book in the genre (The Wages of Whiteness [1991]), for example, distinguishes what...

Narrating Lives, Narrating Whiteness: A Research Note.

Journal of Australian Studies;  March 1, 1999 ;   Haggis, Jane Schech, Susanne Fitzgerald, Gabriele;   787 words ......currently conducting a study exploring whiteness as an aspect of identity in Australia...and sense of identity in relation to whiteness. The core of the project is a study of...white experience. But the key feature of whiteness is its unmarked and unnamed quality...

Unraveling Whiteness

Psychoanalytic Dialogues;  November 1, 2007 ;   Suchet, Melanie;   787 words ...In unraveling whiteness I attempt to make visible that which remains hidden and unnamed. I deconstruct whiteness from historical, political, and psychoanalytic...ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF WHITENESS I FIND myself, born and raised in South...

Weiß - Weißsein - Whiteness. Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassismus....

Gender Forum;  July 1, 2006 ;   Yekani, Elahe Haschemi; Michaelis, Beatrice;   787 words ......Husmann-Kastein, eds. Wei - Weisein - Whiteness. Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassismus...and English-language essays on Critical Whiteness Studies combines different disciplinary...own hegemonic position? Can Critical Whiteness Studies serve as a tool to approach the...

Unmasking the Beast: Learning and Teaching about Whiteness

Transformations;  September 30, 1998 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ......the Beast: Learning and Teaching about Whiteness I had to take it. My friend, Annie, and...scared me, "The Social Construction of Whiteness and Women." But what scared me more was...White," which, given the invisibility of whiteness in general, indirectly states that just...