Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century examines the role whiteness and white identities play in framing and reworking racial categories, hierarchies and boundaries within the context of nation, class, gender and immigration. It takes as its theoretical starting point the understanding that whiteness is not, and nor has it ever been, a static uniform category of social identification. The scholarship in this book uses new empirical studies to show whiteness as a multiplicity of identities that are historically grounded, class specific, politically manipulated and gendered social relations that inhabit local custom and national sentiment.
Contributors to this book examine a wide range of issues, yet all chapters are linked by one common denominator: they examine how power and oppression are articulated, redefined and asserted through various political discourses and cultural practices that privilege whiteness even when the prerogatives of the dominant group are contested. Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century is an important new contribution to the study of whiteness for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and Ethnography.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Charles A. Gallagher is professor and chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice at La Salle University, USA. He is a social inequality and race theorist who has published over 40 articles, reviews and books. His research examines racial and social inequality, immigration, urban sociology and the ways in which the media, the state and popular culture construct, shape and disseminate ideas of race. He is author of Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the New South (2010) and Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity (fifth edition, 2012).
France Winddance Twine is Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a member of the international advisory board of Sociology: the official journal of the British Sociological Association. She has published over 55 articles, reviews and books that examine the intersections of racial, gender and class inequality on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010), Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2011) and Racism in a Racial Democracy: the maintenance of white supremacy in Brazil (1998) and an editor of 4 volumes.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer and John Solomos, University of Surrey, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social sciences to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants
Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur & Marco Martiniello
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation
Edited by Davide Per & John Solomos
New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Edited by Paul Amar
Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital
Edited by Tracey Reynolds
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller & Sandra Gruner-Domic
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles A. Gallagher & France Winddance Twine
Theorising Integration and Assimilation
Edited by Jens Schneider & Maurice Crul
Ethnic and Racial Studies in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?
Edited by Michelle Ann Miller
Diasporas, Cultures and Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Latino Identity in Contemporary America
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Nationalism and National Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
First published 2012
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