Critical White Studies

出版者:Temple Univ Pr

作者:Delgado, Richard (EDT)/ Stefancic, Jean (EDT)

页数:704

出版时间:1997-5

价格:$ 72.89

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9781566395311

具体描述

No longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In "Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror", numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffin, David Roediger, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Noel Ignatiev, Cherrie Moraga, and Reginald Horsman, attack such questions as: How was whiteness invented, and why? How has the category whiteness changed over time? Why did some immigrant groups, such as the Irish and Jews, start out as nonwhite and later become white? Can some individual people be both white and nonwhite at different times, and what does it mean to 'pass for white'? At what point does pride in being white cross the line into white power or white supremacy? What can whites concerned over racial inequity or white privilege do about it? Science and pseudoscience are presented side by side to demonstrate how our views on whiteness often reflect preconception, not fact. For example, most scientists hold that race is not a valid scientific category genetic differences between races are insignificant compared to those within them. Yet, the 'one drop' rule, whereby those with any nonwhite heritage are classified as nonwhite, persists even today. As The Bell Curve controversy shows, race concepts die hard, especially when power and prestige lie behind them. A sweeping portrait of the emerging field of whiteness studies, "Critical White Studies" presents, for the first time, the best work from sociology, law, history, cultural studies, and literature. Delgado and Stefancic expressly offer critical white studies as the next step in critical race theory. In focusing on whiteness, not only do they ask nonwhites to investigate more closely for what it means for others to be white, but also they invite whites to examine themselves more searchingly and to 'look behind the mirror'. Author note: Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. He is the editor of "Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge" (Temple) and the author of several books, including "Failed Resolutions: Social Reform" and the "Limits of Legal Imagination, Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment", and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize nominee "The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations on Race and America". Jean Stefancic is Research Associate in Law at the University of Colorado Law School. She is co-author (with Delgado) of "No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda" (Temple), "Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination", and "Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment".

用户评价

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这本书的书名听起来颇具争议性，尤其是在当前的社会文化语境下。作为一名读者，我通常会抱着一种既期待又审慎的态度去接触这类主题的作品。我希望它能提供一种全新的、深刻的视角来剖析“白人研究”这一概念，而不是简单地停留在对身份政治的重复论述上。期待它能超越表面化的标签，深入挖掘权力结构、历史叙事以及文化构建的复杂性。我想了解作者是如何处理“白人中心主义”的自我反思，以及这种反思在当代语境下如何与更广泛的社会正义议题产生关联。如果这本书能够提供一种更具批判性和思辨性的工具，帮助我们解构那些看似“自然”或“普遍”的白人经验，那将是非常有价值的。我特别关注它在理论深度上的表现，它是否能有效地将社会学、历史学和文化研究的洞见融会贯通，从而形成一个有说服力的论证框架。阅读这类书籍，需要读者投入相当的精力去理解其背后的复杂逻辑和术语体系，因此，我希望作者的行文清晰，能够引导读者逐步进入其思想世界。

这本作品的封面设计和宣传语给我留下了强烈的印象，它似乎在挑战传统的学术规范，试图用一种更具冲击力的方式来探讨身份认同的核心问题。我阅读这类书籍的初衷往往是为了拓展思维的边界，寻找那些不那么“安全”的论点。我特别好奇作者如何处理“白人”作为一种结构性权力而非仅仅是个体身份的议题。如果这本书能够有效地将历史唯物主义的分析方法与后结构主义的身份解构结合起来，那无疑会是一次阅读上的冒险。我更欣赏那些敢于直面自身局限性并进行深度自我审视的作品，而不是那些只是为了迎合某种政治正确而堆砌的辞藻。希望这本书能提供一些扎实的案例分析，而不是空泛的理论口号，让我们可以看到这些复杂的社会机制在日常生活中是如何运作和被再生产的。总而言之，我期待的是一种既有学术严谨性又不失批判勇气的文本。