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	Whiteness studies - InformationBlast
		Whiteness studies is a controversial branch of academic scholarship which emerged circa 1997.
		The central tenet of whiteness studies is a reading of history in which the very concept of race is said to have been created by a white power structure in order to justify discrimination against nonwhites.
		Advocates of whiteness studies argue that whites do not see their own whiteness racially, but regard race as something that "others" have; by emphasizing "whiteness," they seek to change white Americans' view of their own racial identity.
	www.informationblast.com /Whiteness_studies.html (164 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Whiteness Studies: Exploring Privilege
		Whiteness studies should not celebrate white literature or a supposed white culture; rather, useful scholarship in the area engages the concept of being white in a society that first, differentiates between whites and non-whites and second, bestows privilege upon those that fit the description.
		White Trash Girl celebrates the absence of culture that she believes is white culture and says of herself,'"I am busty, and I am loud and I love bad taste.
		In fact, what is interesting about "white trash" is not their relationship to the imagined concept of a white culture, but that even in their impoverished and often uneducated marginality, they retain a privilege in American society: their whiteness.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=158086 (565 words)

	Whiteness Studies » The Kibitzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Whiteness studies is a relatively new academic field that strives to analyze the inequality of power incited by discriminatory thoughts and practices, especially racial.
		There is a growing trend to study groups with power in society such as men and heterosexuals, and both CU professors said that those studying it now are ahead of their time.
		Until there are departments dedicated to dominance studies, one will have to study it on their own or join a class at one of the few universities, which offer a class such as whiteness studies.
	www.thekibitzer.info /blog/?p=6 (1444 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies'
		Winant said whiteness studies advocates must be careful not to paint white heritage with a broad brush, or stray from the historical record.
		Whiteness studies, said Matthew Spalding, is "a derogatory name for Western civilization." Its study is important only to those who think "fl studies and Chicano studies haven't gone far enough in removing the baggage of Anglo-European traditions," said Spalding, director of the Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
		Whiteness studies can be traced to the writings of fl intellectuals such as W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin, but the field did not coalesce until liberal white scholars embraced it about eight years ago, according to some who helped shape it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14386-2003Jun19?language=printer (1755 words)

	RACE TRAITOR \| The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To To Abolish It
		Now that White Studies has become an academic industry, with its own dissertation mill, conference, publications, and no doubt soon its junior faculty, it is time for the abolitionists to declare where they stand in relation to it.
		If abolitionism is distinct from White Studies, it is also distinct from what is called "anti-racism." There now exist a number of publications, organizing programs and research centers that focus their energies on identifying and opposing individuals and groups they call "racist." Sometimes they share information and collaborate with official state agencies.
		A traitor to the white race is someone who is nominally classified as white but who defies white rules so strenuously as to jeopardize his or her ability to draw upon the privileges of whiteness.
	racetraitor.org /abolishthepoint.html (2575 words)

	VDARE.com: 06/30/03 - The Real Meaning Of 'Whiteness Studies'
		The purported assumption is that whites in general harbor all sorts of stereotypes, prejudices, hatreds and other dark mental cargo about other races and that they fail sufficiently to think of themselves as the "privileged" oppressive oligarchy they really are.
		And that's what "whiteness studies" are really about: Who is and who is not in charge, who adapts to whom.
		The people who peddle whiteness studies make no pretense about their real purpose: to change how whites think about race so as to make whites feel guilt about who they are and what they or their ancestors have achieved and thereby to destroy whites' capacity to resist being shoved aside by non-whites.
	www.vdare.com /francis/whiteness_studies.htm (673 words)

	Whiteness Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It’s a great advance to start looking at whiteness as a group.” Winant echoes a recurring theme in the WS curriculum, that whites can happily live a “raceless” existence, while for minorities, evidence of their difference is ubiquitous.
		Ditto for the “white” orientation programs and graduation ceremonies, or the “white” fields of academic study which are, presumably, all those not designated as belonging to some other race or ethnicity.
		When the Whiteness Studies crowd speaks of abolishing “whiteness,” what they really mean is abolishing Americanism, most notably the American ideal of a society in which people are judged not by color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=8565 (1395 words)

	Oz Conservative: Whiteness theorists hit back! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The body representing whiteness theorists, the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA), has a forum where the articles are being discussed.
		Whiteness studies, you might recall, is based on the theory that the white race doesn't really exist, but was socially constructed as a means to exploit indigenous peoples.
		So we have one Robinder Kaur telling whites that they should feel guilty about their heritage and that their success is not due to their own hard work but to exploitation; whilst the other Robinder Kaur tells us that Sikhs should enjoy their glorious heritage and attribute success to their hard work and dedication.
	ozconservative.blogspot.com /2006/11/whiteness-theorists-hit-back.html (2056 words)

	Whiteness Studies: Deceptive or Welcome Discourse? - Interview Black Issues in Higher Education - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a Black studies scholar, my tendency is to be ambivalent about new calls for the study of White people when the majority of the curriculum is about them and usually in the most Eurocentric and vulgarly self-congratulatory forms.
		Closely related to this conceptual misadventure, Whiteness studies might also revive the Hegelian doctrine of the master's struggle for recognition as master as a kind of social and moral equivalency of the enslaved person's struggle for recognition as a human being.
		Otherwise, Whiteness studies again deteriorates into a problematic comparative study of the oppression of people of color and Whites which cannot be sustained intellectually or morally.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_6_16/ai_55618721 (809 words)

	Whiteness Studies
		Whiteness in the News Analyzing Stereotypes Whiteness in the Curriculum
		Until those of us who benefit from white privilege have to confront the consequences of that privilege, it is possible for us to believe the white supremacist line that people of color are victims of their own moral failings, not of government and private policies.
		"Whiteness and the Multicultural Literature Classroom." An essay by Gregory Jay and Sandra Jones introducing whiteness studies and discussing its uses in a course on multicultural American literature.
	www.uwm.edu /People/gjay/Whiteness (1573 words)

	Introduction to Whiteness Studies
		Whiteness Studies attempts to trace the economic and political history behind the invention of "whiteness," to challenge the privileges given to so-called "whites," and to analyze the cultural practices (in art, music, literature, and popular media) that create and perpetuate the fiction of "whiteness."
		Indeed, the history of the invention of whiteness may strengthen arguments against the very notion of "race" itself, since this history exposes that there is no such things as a "pure" race, and that all human population groups are historical mixtures of different ethnicities.
		Whiteness Studies is no substitute for area studies, ethnic studies, or postcolonial studies, but a necessary complement to them.
	www.uwm.edu /~gjay/Whiteness/introwhite.htm (814 words)

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		Whiteness studies look to redefine notions of race -!-!- Brian Costa -!-!- 2006/03/14 -!-!- By understanding the social structure that has given whites privileges, students will be better equipped to help end-–or at least reduce--racial inequalities.
		It’s kind of like you’re given a free token.” “Whiteness Studies,” the title of the class in which she saw the documentary, is a controversial look at what it means to be white in America.
		The purpose of teaching whiteness studies is both academic and socially progressive, professors said.
	jscms.jrn.columbia.edu /cns/2006-03-14/costa-whiteness/fullText (889 words)

	Rajiv Malhotra's Blog : Dialog on Whiteness Studies, Rajiv Malhotra blogs on sulekha, Religion blogs, Rajiv Malhotra ...
		Whiteness is like a twin-engine plane, the right-wing being propelled by Christianity and the left-wing being propelled by the mask of Enlightenment that repositions whiteness as universal thought and culture.
		White shame is the most taboo topic in white culture, yet it drives this urge to deny a white identity and see spiritual salvation and redemption from cultures of color.
		But it's rare to find a white person who partakes of both, and is able to do so as white, as a white person who is truly working to change his or her culture from within so that it better fits within a multiracial world.
	rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com /blog/post/2004/09/dialog-on-whiteness-studies.htm (12650 words)

	Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
		If the critical study of whiteness rests on the intellectual appreciation of the fact that white identity is not a natural condition but a problem whose origins, reproduction and ramifications require explanation, the meetings of the group advertise how broadly this applies.
		Whiteness presents itself from month to month as a problem to be explained in the realms of aesthetics and (lack of) imagination, as one presenting itself in history, in the built environment, in politics, in courts, in classrooms, in attempts to organize and in what James Baldwin brilliantly termed the realm of “moral choice.”
		While critical reflection on whiteness is a longstanding practice, with origins dating to contact stories by native Americans and to slave folklore, academic work in the area is proliferating greatly, within and across fields.
	cdms.ds.uiuc.edu /Research_CDMS/CriticalWhiteness/Introduction.htm (360 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Whiteness Class At CU Prompts Colorful Debate
		Awareness of the relatively new field, called whiteness studies, is building at CU as the university examines its diversity and racial strife.
		While fl studies and Chicano studies highlight the accomplishments of the underrepresented, whiteness studies carries a "philosophical baggage" meant to tear down the white race, Spalding said.
		To fight racism, whites need to see they have advantages that are a "result of them being white, not for any other reason like they are smarter or have a better education," Hubbard said.
	cbs4denver.com /education/local_story_016104032.html (990 words)

	Center for the Study of White American Culture - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not an organization for white supremacists as some people might infer, we are instead a multiracial organization that looks at whiteness and white American culture.
		The most destructive consequence of guilt and one that is most likely to cause [counseling] practitioners and teachers to behave inappropriately and defensively is the threat it poses to self-esteem and to everyone's need to feel positive about his identity.
		White people have as great a need to feel that their racial identity is positive as do people-of-color.
	www.euroamerican.org (293 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Whiteness Studies Class A Popular One At CU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Whiteness Studies is the name of the course, and it is offered at about 20 universities nationwide.
		Topics the class tackles include "White Racial Identity," "Representation of Whites in the Media" and "Seeing Whiteness in the Social Structure." One of the required texts is "Lifting the White Veil: An exploration of white American culture in a multiracial context," by Jeff Hitchcock.
		Critics have said that Whiteness Studies is simply about creating a culture of white guilt and that it shows how far the world of academia has strayed from the real world.
	cbs4denver.com /topstories/local_story_072134804.html (566 words)

	Whoa! Whiteness in dance? Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		One of these ways is the new area called "whiteness studies." Talking about whiteness means looking at racial issues as not only a problem of color.
		Whiteness studies invites Americans of all ethnicities to acknowledge, in novelist Ralph Ellison's words, "the inter-relatedness of flness and whiteness" and to conceive of "white" not as superior to other cultures and lifestyles, but as part of the whole.
		"Whiteness studies:" The point of giving it this name is to show that white--or whiteness--is not the "normal" state of being, with everything else a "deviation from the norm." Instead, it is simply one cultural stream out of many.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_6_79/ai_n14839517 (711 words)

	Ally Work » An Introduction to Whiteness Studies
		Instead, “Whiteness Studies” is an attempt to think critically about how white skin preference has operated systematically, structurally, and sometimes unconsciously as a dominant force in American—and indeed in global—society and culture.
		Thus it includes examining how white skin preference insinuates itself into the culture of communities of color as well, where we may find everything from prejudice against darker skinned people within the community to commercial practices of white-body imitation and surgery (nose jobs, skin creams, eye-lid alteration, etc.).
		The transnational character of white privilege results from the legacy of European colonial imperialism, so that Whiteness Studies may be usefully articulated with theories of globalization and postcoloniality as well.
	allywork.solidaritydesign.net /2006/an-introduction-to-whiteness-studies (662 words)

	SF State News
		The subject is worthy of study, Sueyoshi explained, because the racial construction of whiteness has played a critical role in the history of American race relations and racism.
		She researched current scholarship on whiteness studies and consulted faculty on campus and elsewhere.
		The class covers such areas as the meaning of whiteness studies, the founding fathers, preserving whiteness in the West, the rise of conservatism and whiteness in the 21st century.
	www.sfsu.edu /~news/2004/spring/25.htm (582 words)

	Counter-Racism - Whiteness
		And in order for white people to keep this possible, many of them choose to utilize the act of mistreatment on the basis of COLOR (Racism) in all nine areas of activity, to boost the “value” of NOT being COLORED or White in a system white supremacy.
		This is what the white people who are in-charge of the curriculum of “whiteness” are not examining or even attempting to explain.
		Or in other words, there are some white people holding the non-white people back from doing all those things the white people are doing.
	www.counter-racism.com /articles/newspaper/whiteness.html (1246 words)

	Comments on: White like me “Whiteness studies” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I have a question....if you consider the whiteness studies movement to be "pernicious", then explain what you would rather see.....a white pride studies course?
		White contribution is the "default setting".....that is always covered, even when the course listing is "general" or stated as "American history" ect...
		Why is it that some white americans refuse to realize that minorities are FORCED to set up separate forums and fight for "fl studies" courses because that is the only way they will have the priviledge of seeing their own contributions and their own culture presented in a positive light.
	www.joannejacobs.com /2003/06/20/white-like-me-whiteness-studies/feed (272 words)

	The Black Commentator - ‘Whiteness’ and Other Lies
		The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.
		Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way.
		For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
	www.blackcommentator.com /161/161_sandronsky_whiteness.html (1530 words)

	Basic Books
		At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field.
		He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America.
		In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.
	www.perseusbooksgroup.com /basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465070736 (517 words)

	Whiteness studies look to redefine notions of race — JSCMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Professor Elaine Cleeton addresses her "Sociology of Whiteness" class at State University of New York at Geneseo, where the course is being offered for the first time this semester.
		“Whiteness Studies,” the title of the class in which she saw the documentary, is a controversial look at what it means to be white in America.
		Whiteness studies means different things to different people.
	jscms.jrn.columbia.edu /cns/2006-03-14/costa-whiteness (1147 words)

	Lucky White Girl: Whiteness/White Studies
		So, don't assume that studying IR in another country means that their version of it wouldn't be just "an American import".
		I told him I thought I'd be sensitive to those kinds of things since the whole point of studying elsewhere to be to gain a wider perspective than we tend to get here (we read pretty much just academics in the US and Canada with an occaisonal Brit or German thrown in).
		Also, I suppose it’s a fair enough claim about white people's culture in that, like any generalization, there are folks who don’t fit the mold and the idea is that it -hopefully accurately- describes a general cultural pattern.
	barbhowe.typepad.com /lucky/whitenesswhite_studies/index.html (2688 words)

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