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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. From Gangsta Parties to the Postracial Promised Land: A Year of Race Stories -- 2. Waking Up to Race with Imus in the Morning -- 3. Narrating Nooses: Locating the Role of Race in Jena, LA -- 4. "Race Doesn't Matter": Manic Glimpses of a Postracial Future -- 5. Conversation Stoppers: Apologies All Around -- 6. Our Unfinished Conversation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

ABSTRACTMultispecies ethnographic projects are venturing "beyond the human" (Kohn 2013), but how far can they go and remain anthropological? The answer depends on whether such projects align with the surge of ethological research on animal cultures. Based on my fieldwork on wild horses in Galicia, Spain, I make a case for an ethologically informed ethnography that extends cultural analysis to other social species. In this project, I used ethological techniques of direct observation but analyzed the results using Erving Goffman's concepts of face, footing, and civil inattention. My analysis inverts Clifford Geertz's classic study of the Balinese cockfight by making horse sociality the center of analysis, rather than regarding these animals as representations of human status concerns. I argue that this approach can be usefully applied across the range of taxa that evince culture, particularly those caught up in conservation efforts. In developing this claim, I draw on ethnoprimatologists' efforts to synthesize multispecies ethnography with ethological methods and perspectives. [multispecies ethnography, animal cultures, ethology]

Deconstructs the white use of the racial epithets "white trash," "redneck," & "hillbilly" to depict the shape & circumstances of lower-class white lives, the stratification of power & privilege occurring within whiteness, & key intraracial dynamics centering on class identity & boundary maintenance that support & reproduce whiteness. Various examples of redneck in popular culture are presented to demonstrate how such work opens a space in whiteness characterized by the "diacriticals" of class & rural-urban difference that socially marks whiteness. Instances of "hillbilly" in popular culture are next provided, asserting that the stereotype's currency hinges on the ratification of white urban anxiety toward the white underclass. The same is particularly true of the term "white trash," where the dynamics of distancing & boundary maintenance are clearly in evidence as anxiety & contempt come powerfully together. In addition, there is none of the defensiveness in the use of white trash as seen in the use of redneck & hillbilly, & its boundary maintenance work generally, though not always (eg, as in the case of Lizzie Grubman), remains out of sight. These terms bring together stigmatized traits employed to generate social distance or affirm one's position in that differentiated social space, making race tangible vis-a-vis class distinctions & providing an opportunity to move away from generalizing about race by specifying class & regional distinctions. Critical considerations in the interest of deconstructing whiteness are offered in closing. J. Zendejas

Surveying public discourses on race, one suspects that anthropologists and academics are struggling to keep pace with the innovations and obsessions this subject generates in popular culture. But academic discussions of whiteness and the way it operates may provide a means of altering the terms of racial debates. As an analytical object, whiteness is being established as a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems of racial inequality. Studies of whiteness are demonstrating that whites benefit from a host of social arrangements and institutional operations that seem, to whites, to have no racial basis.

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