Displacing Whiteness
Subtitle: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Contributors: Ruth Frankenberg (Editor); Ruth Frankenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780822320111
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnography; Social History; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; American Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Discrimination & Racism; Attitudes; Eurocentrism; Racism; Whites
First sentence: THE final lines of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening unmistakably mark Edna as white: The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like serpents about her ankles.