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White Women, Race Matters : The Social Construction of Whiteness /

Beginning with the premise that race shapes white women's lives, just as much as gender shapes men's lives or sexuality shapes heterosexual lives, the author examines, through 30 life-history interviews, just how this "whiteness" is constructed. "Whiteness" is not an em...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Frankenberg, Ruth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Points of Origin, Points of Departure
  • White on White: The Interviewees and the Method
  • Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race
  • Race, Sex, and Intimacy 1: Mapping a Discourse
  • Race, Sex, and Intimacy 2: Interracial Couples and Interracial Parenting
  • Thinking Through Race
  • Questions of Culture and Belonging
  • Epilogue: Racism, Antiracism, and the Meaning of Whiteness
  • Appendix: The Women Who Were Interviewed.