Whiteness
The Communication of Social Identity

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Intercultural Communication

December 1998 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This collection of outstanding essays employs a range of approaches to understanding `whiteness' as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data results, poststructuralist theoretical discussions and postcolonial critiques of whiteness. The editors conclude by summarizing not only specific claims about whiteness identity, but about how multimethodological approaches to communication offer new ways of considering research.

Thomas K Nakayama and Judith N Martin

Introduction

Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity

Parker C Johnson

Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS

Philip C Wander, Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama

Whiteness and Beyond

Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges

Judith N Martin et al

What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans

Debian Marty

White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as Apologia

Wendell Berry's The Hidden Wound

Christina W Stage

We Celebrate 100 years

An `Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA

PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTSTRUCTURALIST VIEWS ON WHITENESS

Thomas K Nakayama and Robert L Krizek

Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric

Raka Shome

Whiteness and the Politics of Location

Postcolonial Reflections

K E Supriya

White Difference

Cultural Constructions of White Identity

Sarah Projansky and Kent A Ono

Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics

PART THREE: WHITENESS IN U.S. CONTEXTS

Dreama Moon

White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology

The Discursive Production of `Good (White) Girls'

Jolanta A Drzewiecka and Kathleen Wong (Lau)

The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations

Kevin DeLuca

In the Shadow of Whiteness

The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics

PART FOUR: WHITENESS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS

Priya Kapoor

Provincializing Whiteness

Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress

Melissa Steyn

White Identity in Context

A Personal Narrative

Wen shu Lee

One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses

From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism

". . .encourages the reader to consider different definitions of whiteness. . .a worthwhile addition to the literature on communication."

Jennifer L. Eichstedt

Humboldt State University, California

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