White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness |
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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg No preview available - 1993 |
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Page 1 - First, o 1 o whiteness is a location of structural advantage, of race privilege. Second, it is a "standpoint," a place from which white people look at ourselves , at others , and at society. ' Third, "whiteness" refers to a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
Page 6 - Whiteness refers to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced and moreover are intrinsically linked to unfolding relations of domination. Naming 'whiteness' displaces it from the unmarked, unnamed status that is itself an effect of its dominance. Among the effects on white people both of race privilege and of the dominance of whiteness are their seeming normativity, their structured invisibility
Page 1 - In the same way that both men's and women's lives are shaped by their gender, and that both heterosexual and lesbian women's experiences in the world are marked by their sexuality, white people and people of color live racially structured lives. In other words, any system of differentiation shapes those on whom it bestows privilege as well as those it oppresses. White people are "raced,