White Reign Deploying Whiteness in America [Paperback]

What does it mean to be white in today's society? Is whiteness an ethnicity?White Reigntackles questions like these by examining whiteness as a cultural concept that our society has created and exposing the systems that teach us how we think about race, including schools, media, and even cyberspace. These essays examine the construction of white identity and the possibility of reshaping whiteness in a progressive, nonracist manner, presenting a culture of whiteness that can be employed by educators, parents, and citizens concerned with racial justice.

Joe L. Koncheloeteaches at Brooklyn College and Penn State University andShirley R. Steinbergteaches at Adelphi University. They are co-editors ofMeasured Lies.Nelson M. Rpdriguezteaches at Ohio University andRonald E. Chennaultteaches at DePaul University.

Joining the heated debate over race and identity,White Reignasks what it means to be white in today's race-conscious society.

The editors of this book see race as a cultural and social phenomenon (or 'cultural concept') rather than a biological one. Library Journal

This book is particularly concerned with the backlash against multiculturalism. Hungry Mind Review

This collection of essays works to discover, construct, and reconstruct an appropriate name for the racial identity of European Americans. . .[The] contributors do an excellent job. Contemporary Sociology

Foreword--Michael Apple *I: Theory and Pedagogy* Addressing the Crisis of Whiteness--Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg * Emptying the Content of Whiteness--Nelson M. Rodriguez * Whiteness Is . . . The Struggle for Postcolonial Hybridity--Peter McLaren * Is the Benign Really Harmless?--Frances V. Rains * America's Racial Unconscious--Monica Beatriz deMello Patterson * Youth, Memory-Work, and the Radical Politics of Whiteness--Henry A. Giroux * They Got the Paradigm and Paintedl#¼