The future of whiteness /
By: Alcoff, Linda.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2015Description: vii, 223 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780745685441; 9780745685441:; 0745685447; 9780745685458; 0745685455.Subject(s): Whites -- United States | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.809 ALCItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 305.809 ALC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0065312 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The unbearable whiteness of being -- An analytic of whiteness -- White exceptionalism -- Double consciousness -- Conclusion: A place in the rainbow.
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. This is the political and cultural reality tackled by Linda Alcoff in 'The Future of Whiteness'. She argues that whiteness is here to stay, at least for a while, but that half of whites have given up on ideas of white supremacy, and the shared public, material culture is more integrated than ever.