Waste of a White Skin : The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability /

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"A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early 20th century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation's study of race in South Africa, The Poor White Stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York > Influence.
White nationalism.
Race relations.
Poverty > Political aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Diplomatic relations.
Apartheid.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Pauvrete > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud.
Nationalisme blanc > Afrique du Sud > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Poverty > Political aspects > South Africa.
White nationalism > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Apartheid > South Africa > History > 20th century.
United States.
South Africa.
Afrique du Sud > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Afrique du Sud.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
South Africa > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > South Africa.
South Africa > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Forgeries of history : the Poor White Study
  • The visual culture of white poverty as the history of South Africa and the United States : repetition, rediscovery, playing with whiteness
  • The white primitive? : whiteness studies, embodiment, invisibility, property
  • The roots of white poverty : cheap, lazy, inefficient? : black
  • Origin stories about segregationist philanthropy
  • Carnegie in Africa and the knowledge politics of apartheid? : research agendas not taken
  • I'll give you something to cry about? : the intraracial violence of uplift feminism in the Carnegie Poor White Study volume, the mother and daughter of the poor family
  • Conclusion : race makes nation.

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