Whiteness and racialized ethnic groups in the United States
Subtitle: the politics of remembering
By: Sherrow O. Pinder
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780739164891; 9780739164914
Subjects: Race relations; Attitudes; Race identity; Whites; Racism; Race awareness; History
Description: "Pinder examines the seemingly never-ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups, including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans. She documents the difference between remembering a history of human indignities and re-creating one that composes its own textual memory. More specifically, Pinder reformulates how the historically reliant positionality of whiteness as a part of the everyday practice and discourse of white supremacy became institutionalized. Even though 'whiteness studies' has entered the realm of academic research with the intention of exposing white privilege and is moving toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, Pinder argues that this academic study is not equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. In order to cosntruct a post-white identity, the book concludes that whiteness has to be denormalized and freed of its presumptive hegemony"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the argument in brief; title: The emergence of whiteness in the United States; title: Whiteness as property and its impact on racialized ethnic groups; title: Antidiscrimination measures and whiteness : the case of affirmative action programs; title: Whiteness and the problematics of whiteness studies; title: The quandary of antiracist whiteness; title: Conclusion : reflections.