After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority [Hardcover]

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Beautifully written and rigorously argued,After Whitenessis 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'sAfter Whitenessis 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 Whitenesssets 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 Chicago
As 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 Whitenessaims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaglS(