Papers from a conference held at the University of California at Berkeley in April 1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.
Contents:
Universal freckle, or how I learned to be white / Dalton Conley -- "The souls of white folks" / Mab Segrest -- The mirage of an unmarked whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- White racial projects / Howard Winant -- The "Morphing" properties of whiteness / Troy Duster -- "White devils" talk back : what antiracists can learn from whites in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. -- Transnational configurations of desire : the nation and its white closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar -- Perfidious Albion : whiteness and the international imagination / Vron Ware -- The new liberalism in America : identity politics in the "vital center" / Eric Lott -- How gay stays white and what kind of white it stays / Allan Bérubé -- (E)racism : emerging practices of antiracist organizations / Michael Omi -- Moving from guilt to action : antiracist organizing and the concept of "whiteness" for activism and the academy / William Aal.
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