Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives (Interruptions-Border Testimonies and Critical Discourse/S) - Softcover

Levine-Rasky, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791453405 ISBN 13: 9780791453407

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Embraces the leading edge in critical race theory.

What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, American, British, and Australian scholars, reflecting the broad array of academic inquiry into whiteness in the areas of law, ethics, education, feminism, politics, psychology, sociology, criminology, and social geography. Rarely has knowledge of whiteness as the practice of social domination been drawn from this far and wide. By embracing the leading edge in critical theory, this book is a crucial addition to the growing literature on whiteness.

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From the Back Cover:

What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, American, British, and Australian scholars, reflecting the broad array of academic inquiry into whiteness in the areas of law, ethics, education, feminism, politics, psychology, sociology, criminology, and social geography. Rarely has knowledge of whiteness as the practice of social domination been drawn from this far and wide. By embracing the leading edge in critical theory, this book is a crucial addition to the growing literature on whiteness.

About the Author:

Cynthia Levine-Rasky is Instructor in the Division of Social Science at York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0791453405
• ISBN 13: 9780791453407
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 371