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 rigorous examination of existing methodologies, practices and assumptions concerning racism and gender relations. Supported by extracts from in-depth life history interviews, White Women, Race Matters provides valuable course material.
Biography
Ruth Frankenburg