Research Catalog

Title

Whiteness : the communication of social identity / Thomas K. Nakayama, Judith N. Martin editors.

Publication

• Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1999]
• ©1999

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nakayama, Thomas K.
• Martin, Judith N.

Description

xiv, 314 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Whiteness is a collection of essays that employ a range of approaches to understanding whiteness as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Also included are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness.

Subject

• White people > Race identity
• White people > Communication
• Race awareness
• Intercultural communication
• Blanken
• Sociale identiteit
• Interculturele communicatie
• Whites > Race identity
• Whites > Communication

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Whiteness as the communication of social identity / Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin -- Reflections on critical white(ness) studies / Parker C. Johnson -- pt. I. Foundations of whiteness. Whiteness and beyond: sociohistorical foundations of whiteness and contemporary challenges / Philip C. Wander, Judith N. Martin, and Thomas K. Nakayama -- What do white people want to be called? a study of self-labels for white Americans / Judith N. Martin [and others] -- White antiracist rhetoric as apologia: Wendell Berry's The hidden wound / Debian Marty -- We celebrate 100 years: an "indigenous" analysis of the metaphors that shape the cultural identity of Small Town, U.S.A. / Christina W. Stage -- pt. II. Postcolonial and poststructuralist views on whiteness. Whiteness as a strategic rhetoric / Thomas K. Nakayama and Robert L. Krizek -- Whiteness and the politics of location: postcolonial reflections / Raka Shome -- White difference: cultural constructions of white identity / K.E. Supriya -- Strategic whiteness as cinematic racial politics / Sarah Projansky and Kent A. Ono -- pt. III. Whiteness in U.S. contexts. White enculturation and bourgeois ideology: the discursive production of "good (white) girls" / Dreama Moon -- The dynamic construction of white ethnicity in the context of transnational cultural formations / Jolanta A. Drzewiecka and Kathleen Wong (Lau) -- In the shadow of whiteness: the consequences of constructions of nature in environmental politics / Kevin DeLuca -- pt. IV. Whiteness in international contexts. Provincializing whiteness: deconstructing discourse(s) on international progress / Priya Kapoor -- White identity in context: a personal narrative / Melissa Steyn -- One whiteness veils three uglinesses: from border-crossing to a womanist interrogation of gendered colorism / Wen Shu Lee.

ISBN

• 0761908625
• 9780761908623
• 0761908633
• 9780761908630

LCCN

98019674

OCLC

• ocm38936719
• 38936719
• SCSB-14662866

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library