Interrogating "Whiteness," Complicating "Blackness": Remapping American Culture

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

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“…Please see the superb collection of reviews of some of the central works in (M. Hill 1996) Minnesota Review, 47, 1996, guest editor, Mike Hill. Other reviews are: Brody 1996;Fishkin 1995;Hyde 1995. 2.…”

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Object lessons in whiteness: Antiracism and the study of white folks

Hartigan

2000

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This paper examines the convergence of antiracist politics and theorizing with the emergent ethnographic attention to cultural constructions of whiteness. The methodological, conceptual, and political crossing points between antiracist scholarship and cultural anthropologists' burgeoning interest in the construction of white racial identity raise a host of provocative issues about the political stakes involved in studying whiteness. Drawing on my fieldwork on whites in Detroit, Michigan, I offer a critical reflection on the influence that antiracist projects have had on anthropologists' efforts to analyze whiteness. The core of this discussion involves an evaluation of the centrality of "racism" in the analytical judgments of antiracist and ethnographic studies. Though it is perhaps more politically useful and appealing to develop emphatic assessments of how whites reproduce and imbibe racism, I argue that it is also critical to consider the highly contradictory and ambiguous aspects of white racial identification. Through a critique of the way antiracists analyze the stories white people tell, I delineate the comparative advantages that an ethnographic attention to the ambiguities of racial matters brings to the tasks of understanding whiteness.For scholars concerned with the problems of racial inequality and searching for a means directly to affect a change in the way racism is

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Object lessons in whiteness: Antiracism and the study of white folks

Hartigan

2000

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“…In Brazil, however, the mixture of races results in that the nicknames with racial nature are more numerous and are diversified, strengthening the theses that The Symbology of Nicknames in the School Everyday Life advocate for the emergence of whiteness as a symbol increasingly more visible time of racial identity (Frankenberg, 1993;Fishkin, 1995;Preston 2007;Macmullan, 2009;Giroux, 1999). When Giroux advocates for a pedagogy and politics of whiteness -what assumes that the school is considered, and overall lived, as a space of criticism and dialogue -it is bluntly that he points the strategy: the teachers can start such dialogue with what the students already know, that is, questioning them on the racial and cultural differences that they feel in their everyday life, since early in the school space.…”

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A Simbologia dos Apelidos na Vida Cotidiana Escolar

Pais

2018

Educ. Real.

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-The Symbology of Nicknames in the School Everyday Life.This paper discusses the relevance of ways of looking at, questioning and shedding light on what assumes the everyday life as a methodological lever of the knowledge of school reality. With this goal, it is explored the symbology of nicknames in different school contexts of Portugal and Brazil and the social circumstances which contribute to their production and circulation. It is necessary to see how names spin out meanings in the informal everyday language. The proposed methodology takes the words of everyday chatting as vehicles for understanding the underlying social relationships. Keywords: Everyday Life. Language. Nicknames. Representations. Body. RESUMO -A Simbologia dos Apelidos na Vida Cotidiana Escolar.Neste artigo debate-se a relevância de alguns modos de olhar, questionar e desvendar que tomam a vida cotidiana como alavanca metodológica do conhecimento da realidade escolar. Tendo em vista este objetivo, explora-se a simbologia dos apelidos em diferentes contextos escolares de Portugal e do Brasil e as circunstâncias sociais que contribuem para a sua produção e circulação. Há que ver como os nomes rodopiam sentidos na linguagem cotidiana dos jovens. A metodologia proposta toma as palavras do linguarejar cotidiano como veículos de entendimento das relações sociais que as sustentam. Palavras-chave: Cotidiano. Linguagem. Apelidos. Representações. Corpo.

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“…''Whiteness never has to speak its name,'' George Lipsitz (1998, 1) writes, ''never has to acknowledge its role as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations.'' Such an erasure allows many people to merge their perceived absence of racial being with the nation, enabling whiteness to become their unspoken but most profound sense of what it means to be an American, and, by necessity, making all other racialized identities an Other (e.g., Fishkin 1995;Winant 1997;Hale 1998;Kobayashi and Peake 2000). This is a significant argument in critical race studies, and one that has triggered much scholarly discussion during the past decade.…”

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Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

Hoelscher

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article examines the process of racialization as an essential aspect of how everyday geographies are made, understood, and challenged. It begins from the premise that a primary root of modern American race relations can be found in the southern past, especially in how that past was imagined, articulated, and performed during a crucial period: the post-Reconstruction era known as ''Jim Crow.'' More than just a reaction to a turbulent world where Civil War defeat destabilized categories of power and authority, white cultural memory there became an active ingredient in defining life in the New South. The culture of segregation that mobilized such memories, and the forgetting that inevitably accompanied them, relied on performance, ritualized choreographies of race and place, and gender and class, in which participants knew their roles and acted them out for each other and for visitors. Among the displays of white southern memory most active during Jim Crow, the Natchez Pilgrimage stands out. Elite white women served as the principal actors in making an imaginative geography that became a bedrock of cultural hegemony based on white supremacy. In order to reconstruct the performances of whiteness in Natchez, Mississippi, and to disentangle the constitutive relationship between race and place, this article makes use of qualitative methods that rely on previously unused archival materials and on ethnographic fieldnotes.

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Interrogating "Whiteness," Complicating "Blackness": Remapping American Culture

Cited by 123 publications

References 41 publications

Object lessons in whiteness: Antiracism and the study of white folks

Object lessons in whiteness: Antiracism and the study of white folks

A Simbologia dos Apelidos na Vida Cotidiana Escolar

Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

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