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Author Hill, Mike

Title After Whiteness : Unmaking an American Majority
Published New York : NYU Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Cultural front (Series)
Cultural front (Series)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: After Whiteness Eve; Part I: Incalculable Community: Multiracialism, U.S. Census 2000, and the Crisis of the Liberal State; Labor Formalism; Dissensus 2000; The Will to Category; Rebirth of a Nation?; America, Not Counting Class; Part II: A Fascism of Benevolence: God and Family in the Father-Shaped Void; Of Communism and Castration; Muscular Multiculturalism; When Color is the Father; A Certain Gesture of Virility; The Eros of Warfare; Part III: Race Among Ruins: Whiteness, Work, and Writing in the New University; Between Jobs and Work
The Multiversity's DiversityAfter Whiteness Studies; Multitude or Culturalism?; How Color Saved the Canon; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-261) and index
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Subject Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States
Multiculturalism -- United States
National characteristics, American.
Heterosexual men -- United States -- Psychology
Men, White -- United States -- Psychology
White people -- Race identity -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Education, Higher -- Political aspects
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Group identity -- Political aspects
Heterosexual men -- Psychology
Multiculturalism
National characteristics, American
Race relations
White people -- Race identity
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SUBJECT United States -- Census, 2000
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Genre/Form Census data
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814744598
0814744591