ABSTRACT
Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how whiteness works and what it does. With attention to central concepts and the history of whiteness, it explains the four ways in which whiteness works. In its examination of the outward and inward fractures of whiteness, the book sheds light on both its connections with social class and ethnicity and with the 'epistemology of ignorance' and the psychoanalytic. Representing the long career of whiteness on the one hand and investigating its expansion into new areas on the other, Whiteness Fractured reflects the growing maturity of critical whiteness studies. It undertakes a critical analysis of approaches to whiteness and proposes new directions for future action and enquiry. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, intersectionality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |40 pages
Introduction
chapter |6 pages
Framing Whiteness
chapter |8 pages
Theorizing Whiteness
chapter |10 pages
Interpreting Whiteness and its Correlates
chapter |14 pages
Histories of Whiteness
part |46 pages
Four Ways in Which Whiteness Works
chapter |14 pages
Normalization and Solipsism
chapter |10 pages
Controlling Terms of Engagement
chapter |10 pages
Ideological Commitments
chapter |10 pages
Exclusionary Practices
part |56 pages
Outward Fractures: Whiteness and intersectionality
chapter |14 pages
The Rise of Intersectionality Theory
chapter |8 pages
Intersectionality Theory and the Analysis of Power
chapter |10 pages
Intersections between Whiteness and Class
chapter |12 pages
Intersections between Whiteness and Ethnicity
chapter |10 pages
Intersections between Whiteness and Jewish Ethnicity
part |48 pages
Inward Fractures: The Psychic Life of Whiteness
chapter |8 pages
The Emotionality of Whiteness
chapter |8 pages
The Epistemology of Ignorance
chapter |8 pages
The Psychic Turn
chapter |10 pages
Construction of the Other in Popular Racism
chapter |12 pages
Psychoanalytic Themes in the Construction of the Racialized Other
part |22 pages
Approaches to Studying Whiteness