| Description |
1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. On Trauma, Trauma Narratives, and Social Movements -- 2. White Consciousness from Colonization to the Civil War -- 3. Representing and Organizing Whiteness -- 4. Racializing the Nation: Popular Culture and Whiteness -- 5. Voicing Whiteness: Banal Whiteness, Real and Imagined Communities, and the Reproduction of Color Codes -- 6. White Consciousness in the Digital Age -- 7. On the Future of Whiteness and White Supremacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the United States. Drawing upon his previous work on the formation of African American Identity, as well as cultural trauma theory, collective memory, and social movements, Eyerman reveals how and under what conditions such a collective identification emerges, how collective action around an ideology of whiteness and white superiority happens, and considers the prospects of the ideology of white supremacy as a political force |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
White people -- Race identity -- United States
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White people -- United States -- Attitudes
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White nationalism -- United States -- History
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Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects
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Mass media and race relations -- United States
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Mass media and race relations
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Racism -- Psychological aspects
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White nationalism
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White people -- Attitudes
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White people -- Race identity
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197658963 |
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0197658962 |
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