White women, race matters : the social construction of whiteness /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frankenberg, Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1993
Subjects:
Women, White > United States > Social conditions.
Women, White > United States > Interviews.
Interracial marriage > United States.
Racism > United States.
Blanches > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Blanches > États-Unis > Entretiens.
Mariage interracial > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Interracial marriage
Race relations
Racism
Women, White
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Interviews
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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