After Whiteness : Unmaking an American Majority / Mike Hill.
2004
E184.A1 H527 2004
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After Whiteness : Unmaking an American Majority / Mike Hill.
Author
Hill, Mike, author.
ISBN
9780814744598
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
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©2004
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814744598.001.0001 doi
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E184.A1 H527 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.809/073
Summary
View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction. "Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's reputation as one of the finest thinkers of his generation."-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Mike Hill's After Whiteness is an important, provocative and timely book."-Against the Current "A lucid, fiercely argued, brilliantly conceived, richly provocative work in an emergent and growing area of cultural studies. After Whiteness sets new directions in American literary and cultural studies, and will become a landmark in the field."-Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University"Americanists across the disciplines will find Hill's analysis insightful and brilliant. A must for any scholar who wishes to, in Ralph Ellison's words, 'go to the territory.'"-Sharon Holland, University of Illinois at ChicagoAs each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority. In spite of the recent proliferation of academic studies and popular discourse on whiteness, however, there has been little discussion of the future: what comes after whiteness? On the brink of what many are now imagining as a post-white American future, it remains a matter of both popular and academic uncertainty as to what will emerge in its place.After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color-as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance-and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.
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Cultural Front ; ; 1
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: AFTER WHITENESS EVE
I INCALCULABLE COMMUNITY: MULTIRACIALISM, U.S. CENSUS 2000, AND THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL STATE
1.1 LABOR FORMALISM
1.2 DISSENSUS 2000
1.3 THE WILL TO CATEGORY
1.4 REBIRTH OF A NATION?
1.5 AMERICA, NOT COUNTING CLASS
II A FASCISM OF BENEVOLENCE: GOD AND FAMILY IN THE FATHER-SHAPED VOID
2.1 OF COMMUNISM AND CASTRATION
2.2 MUSCULAR MULTICULTURALISM
2.3 WHEN COLOR IS THE FATHER
2.4 A CERTAIN GESTURE OF VIRILITY
2.5 THE EROS OF WARFARE
III RACE AMONG RUINS: WHITENESS, WORK, AND WRITING IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY
3.1 BETWEEN JOBS AND WORK
3.2 THE MULTIVERSITY'S DIVERSITY
3.3 AFTER WHITENESS STUDIES
3.4 MULTITUDE OR CULTURALISM?
3.5 HOW COLOR SAVED THE CANON
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: AFTER WHITENESS EVE
I INCALCULABLE COMMUNITY: MULTIRACIALISM, U.S. CENSUS 2000, AND THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL STATE
1.1 LABOR FORMALISM
1.2 DISSENSUS 2000
1.3 THE WILL TO CATEGORY
1.4 REBIRTH OF A NATION?
1.5 AMERICA, NOT COUNTING CLASS
II A FASCISM OF BENEVOLENCE: GOD AND FAMILY IN THE FATHER-SHAPED VOID
2.1 OF COMMUNISM AND CASTRATION
2.2 MUSCULAR MULTICULTURALISM
2.3 WHEN COLOR IS THE FATHER
2.4 A CERTAIN GESTURE OF VIRILITY
2.5 THE EROS OF WARFARE
III RACE AMONG RUINS: WHITENESS, WORK, AND WRITING IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY
3.1 BETWEEN JOBS AND WORK
3.2 THE MULTIVERSITY'S DIVERSITY
3.3 AFTER WHITENESS STUDIES
3.4 MULTITUDE OR CULTURALISM?
3.5 HOW COLOR SAVED THE CANON
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR