Lifting the White Veil |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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Preface |
vi |
Chapter 1. White people
- What do we want?
A strange
logic * What do we want? * Reality and myth * Pop quiz * Walking the
tightrope * Not all white people are the same
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Chapter 2. What will it take to
create a multiracial society?
What is a
multiracial society? * What do we have now? * Monoracial and
multiracial structures * Looking at some numbers * Interracial
marriage - An example * What about other areas of our society? *
What will it take to create a multiracial society? * What do white
people need to do?
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Chapter 3. Remedial education for
white folk
Physical and
social reality * Culture * Cultural membership(s) * Cultural
practices * Purpose of culture * Cultural location and change * Race
* Biological definitions * Social definitions * Comparing social and
biological explanations * Race and culture * Race as a cultural
formation * White American culture
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Chapter 4. Colorblindness,
personified
From the
margins to the center, historical development * As an idealized goal
* As a legal theory * As a culturally-based set of beliefs * As a
political theory * A big step * Will it bring us a multiracial
society? * Radical colorblindness * Colorblindness - reconsidered *
Mend it; don’t end it
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Chapter 5. How did it all
begin?
1607 - 1622:
Forging a common identity * 1623 - 1669: English, indeed, but not
yet white * 1670 - 1705: The birth of whiteness * 1706 - 1780: The
(white) Rights of Men * 1781 - 1860: The birth of the white American
character
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Chapter 6. Looking at white American
culture
Who owns a
culture? * We can all be (white) Americans * Our culture, in the
American context * The dominant subculture * Characteristics of
contemporary white American culture * Everyday interaction *
Believing is seeing (or not seeing)
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Chapter 7. Inside the white
experience
White racial
identity * Innocence and guilt * Shame, shame, shame * White pride *
Two sides of the same coin (internalized oppression and internalized
dominance)
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122 |
Chapter 8. The academy
awakens
Asking the
right question * Laying the foundations * A structure deeper than
words * Troubled visions among feminists * Representation of what? *
Twenty years in the making * Putting whiteness on the map *
Whiteness studies – a tourist’s view * Is it a good thing? * Coming
soon to a university near you
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Chapter 9. Grass roots, old, deep,
and spreading
The first
conference on whiteness * Government * Business * Church groups –
spiritual approaches * The news media * Public interest groups *
Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. * The
public
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Chapter 10. Moving toward a
multiracial future
Why think
about whiteness? * The problem of the 21st century * Access to power
and resources * What are we for? * Another model * Relations between
white culture and cultures of color * Comparison to other models *
Let’s be clear on some things * Multiracial settings are the norm *
Decentering whiteness * Where to begin
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Appendix |
221 |
Notes |
225 |
Index
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236 |