1st Edition
White Women, Race Matters The Social Construction of Whiteness
By Ruth Frankenburg
Copyright 1994
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular ecperiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a... Read more
1. Introduction: Points of Origin, Points of Departure 2. White on White: The Interviewees and the Method 3. Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race 4. Race, Sex, and Intimacy I: Mapping a Discourse 5. Race, Sex, and Intimacy II: Interracial Couples and Interracial Parenting 6. Thinking Through Race 7. Questions of Culture and Belonging Epilogue: Racism, Antiracism, and the Meaning of Whiteness
Biography
Ruth Frankenberg is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis.
