Critical White Studies

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
PART I How Whites See Themselves......Page 20
1 The End of the Great White Male......Page 22
2 White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century......Page 25
3 The Skin We\'re In......Page 31
4 The Way of the WASP......Page 35
5 Hiring Quotas for White Males Only......Page 43
6 Innocence and Affirmative Action......Page 46
7 Doing the White Male Kvetch (A Pale Imitation of a Rag)......Page 52
8 Growing Up White in America?......Page 53
9 Growing Up (What) in America?......Page 55
10 White Images of Black Slaves (Is What We See in Others Sometimes a Reflection of What We Find in Ourselves?)......Page 57
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 65
Suggested Readings......Page 66
PART II How Whites See Others......Page 68
11 The White Race Is Shrinking: Perceptions of Race in Canada and Some Speculations on the Political Economy of Race Classification......Page 70
12 Ignoble Savages......Page 74
13 Darkness Made Visible: law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self......Page 85
14 Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the literary Imagination......Page 98
15 Transparently White Subjective Decisionmaking: Fashioning a legal Remedy......Page 104
16 The Rhetorical Tapestry of Race......Page 108
17 Imposition......Page 117
18 Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of liberation......Page 125
19 The Tower of Babel......Page 131
20 The Quest for Freedom in the Post-Brown South: Desegregation and White Self-Interest......Page 136
21 \"Soulmaning\": Using Race for Political and Economic Gain......Page 144
22 Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and Miseducation......Page 147
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 152
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 153
Suggested Readings......Page 154
PART III Whiteness: History\'s Role......Page 156
23 Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism......Page 158
24 The Invention of Race: Rereading White Over Black......Page 164
25 \"Only the Law Would Rule between Us\": Antimiscegenation, the Moral Economy of Dependency, and the Debate over Rights after the Civil War......Page 171
26 The Antidemocratic Power of Whiteness......Page 176
27 Who\'s Black, Who\'s White, and Who Cares......Page 183
28 Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture......Page 189
29 Back to the Future with The Bell Curve: Jim Crow, Slavery, and G......Page 198
30 The Genetic Tie......Page 205
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 209
Suggested Readings......Page 211
PART IV Whiteness: Law\'s Role......Page 212
31 White Law and Lawyers: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood......Page 214
32 Social Science and Segregation before Brown......Page 218
33 Mexican-Americans and Whiteness......Page 229
34 Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education......Page 233
35 The Transparency Phenomenon, Race-Neutral Decisionmaking, and Discriminatory Intent......Page 239
36 Toward a Black Legal Scholarship: Race and Original Understandings......Page 246
37 Identity Notes, Part One: Playing in the Light......Page 250
38 The Constitutional Ghetto......Page 258
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 267
Suggested Readings......Page 268
PART V Whiteness: Culture\'s Role......Page 270
39 Do You Know This Man?......Page 272
40 The Curse of Ham......Page 274
41 Los Olvidados: On the Making of Invisible People......Page 277
42 White Innocence, Black Abstraction......Page 282
43 Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film......Page 286
44 Residential Segregation and White Privilege......Page 292
45 Mules, Madonnas, Babies, Bathwater: Racial Imagery and Stereotypes......Page 295
46 The Other Pleasures: The Narrative Function of Race in the Cinema......Page 299
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 304
Suggested Readings......Page 307
PART VI White Privilege......Page 308
47 White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women\'s Studies......Page 310
48 From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway?......Page 319
49 Racial Construction and Women as Differentiated Actors......Page 324
50 The GI Bill: Whites Only Need Apply......Page 329
51 Making Systems of Privilege Visible......Page 333
52 Race and Racial Classifications......Page 339
53 Reflections on Whiteness: The Case of Latinos(as)......Page 342
54 Stirring the Ashes: Race, Class, and the Future of Civil Rights Scholarship......Page 346
55 The Social Construction of Whiteness......Page 349
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 353
Suggested Readings......Page 354
PART VII The Ladder of Whiteness......Page 356
56 The Mind of the South......Page 358
57 Old Poison in New Bottles: The Deep Roots of Modern Nativism......Page 367
58 The First Word in Whiteness: Early Twentieth-Century European Immigration......Page 373
59 Life on the Color Line......Page 376
60 Others, and the WASP World They Aspired To......Page 379
61 Beyond the Melting Pot......Page 387
62 The Economic Payoff of Attending an Ivy-League Institution......Page 397
63 Useful Knowledge......Page 400
64 Stupid Rich Bastards......Page 406
65 How Did Jews Become White Folks?......Page 414
66 How White People Became White......Page 421
67 Paths to Belonging: The Constitution and Cultural Identity......Page 426
68 Is the Radical Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic?......Page 433
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 439
Suggested Readings......Page 440
PART VIII The Color Line: Multiracial People and \"Passing for White\"......Page 442
69 Passing for White, Passing for Black......Page 444
70 Black Like Me......Page 451
71 The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, and Culture......Page 457
72 Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother?......Page 463
73 Learning How to Be Niggers......Page 477
74 What Does a White Woman Look Like? Racing and Erasing in Law......Page 486
75 La Guera......Page 490
76 Notes of a White Black Woman......Page 494
77 Our Next Race Question: The Uneasiness between Blacks and Latinos......Page 501
78 A Review of Life on the Color Line......Page 512
79 What Is Race, Anyway?......Page 518
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 520
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 521
Suggested Readings......Page 522
PART IX Biology and Pseudoscience......Page 524
80 The Misleading Abstractions of Social Scientists......Page 526
81 Caste, Crime, and Precocity......Page 529
82 Embodiment and Perspective: Can White Men Jump?......Page 531
83 Bell Curve Liberals: How the Left Betrayed IQ......Page 534
84 Brave New Right......Page 538
85 Race and Parentage......Page 542
86 The Sources of The Bell Curve......Page 547
87 Hearts of Darkness......Page 549
88 Thank You, Doctors Murray and Herrnstein (Or, Who\'s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?)......Page 553
89 Dangerous Undertones of the New Nativism......Page 557
From the Editors: Issues and Comments......Page 561
Suggested Readings......Page 562
PART X White Consciousness, White Power......Page 564
90 The Rise of Private Militia: A First and Second Amendment Analysis of the Right to Organize and the Right to Train......Page 566
91 The Changing Faces of White Supremacy......Page 571
92 Hatelines: Week of Sunday, April 7, 1996......Page 577
93 Blue by Day and White by [K]night......Page 580
94 The Race Question and Its Solution......Page 585
95 The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today......Page 592
96 Talking about Race with America\'s Klansmen......Page 605
97 Antidiscrimination Law and Transparency: Barriers to Equality?......Page 608
98 White Supremacy (And What We Should Do about It)......Page 611
99 White Superiority in America: Its Legal Legacy, Its Economic Costs......Page 615
Synopses of Other Important Works......Page 620
Suggested Readings......Page 623
PART XI What Then Shall We Do? A Role for Whites......Page 624
100 Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity......Page 626
101 How to Be a Race Traitor: Six Ways to Fight Being White......Page 632
102 Rodrigo\'s Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy......Page 633
103 Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implications of Making Comparisons between Racism and Sexism (or Other Isms)......Page 638
104 White Men Can Jump: But Must Try a Little Harder......Page 646
105 \"Was Blind, but Now I See\": White Race Consciousness and the Requirement of Discriminatory Intent......Page 648
106 White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness......Page 651
107 Resisting Racisms, Eliminating Exclusions: South Africa and the United States......Page 654
108 Dysconscious Racism: The Cultural Politics of Critiquing Ideology and Identity......Page 659
109 What Should White Women Do?......Page 661
110 Confronting Racelessness......Page 663
111 A Civil Rights Agenda for the Year 2000: Confessions of an Identity Politician......Page 665
112 What We Believe......Page 672
113 Segregation, Whiteness, and Transformation......Page 673
114 White Out......Page 677
Suggested Readings......Page 683
About the Contributors......Page 684
Index......Page 690