Whiteness


The History of White People
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
How the Irish Became White
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints)
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1
The Ways of White Folks
Frank B. Wilderson III
[...] white people are, ipso facto, deputized in the face of Black people, whether they know it (consciously) or not. Whiteness, then, and by extension civil society, cannot be solely “represented” as some monumentalized coherence of phallic signifiers, but must first be understood as a social formation of contemporaries who do not magnetize bullets. This is the essence of their construction through an asignifying absence; their signifying presence is manifested by the fact that they are, if onl ...more
Frank B. Wilderson III, The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal

Jennifer      Lee
I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos. ...more
Jennifer Lee, Tarnished Angel: Surviving in the Dark Curve of Drugs, Violence, Sex, and Fame : A Memoir

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