The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White -- ''The Souls of White Folks'' -- The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness -- White Racial Projects -- The ''Morphing'' Properties of Whiteness -- ''White Devils'' Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit -- Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets -- Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination -- The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ''Vital Center'' -- How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays -- (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations -- Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ''Whiteness'' for Activism and the Academy -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index