{"product_id":"whiteness-isbn-9780262544191","title":"Whiteness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness, tracing its creation, its changing formation, and its power to privilege and protect people who are perceived as white. Whiteness, author Martin Lund explains, is not one single idea but a \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eshifting, overarching category, a flexible cluster of historically, culturally, and geographically contingent ideals and standards that enable systems of hierarchical classification. Lund discusses words used to talk about whiteness, from white privilege to white fragility; the intersections of whiteness with race, class, and gender; whiteness in popular culture; and such ideas as “colorblindness” and “reverse racism,” which, he argues, actually uphold whiteness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLund shows why it is important to keep talking and thinking about whiteness. The word “whiteness,” he writes, doesn’t describe; it conjures something into being. Drawing on decades of critical whiteness studies and citing a range of examples (primarily from the United States and Sweden), Lund argues that whiteness is continually manufactured and sustained through language, laws, policies, science, and representations in media and popular culture. It is often positioned as normative, even universal. And despite its innocuous-seeming manifestations in sitcoms and superheroes, whiteness is always in the service of racial domination. Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Whiteness and Its Discontents 17\u003cbr\u003e3 White Words 59\u003cbr\u003e4 It's a White World after All 91\u003cbr\u003e5 Popular Whiteness 133\u003cbr\u003e6 Don't Call Me White! 169\u003cbr\u003e7 Whither Whiteness? 201\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 217\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 219\u003cbr\u003eNotes 221\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 237\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 249\u003cbr\u003eIndex 251Martin Lund is Senior Lecturer, Department of Society, Culture, and Identity at Malmö University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRe-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938-1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305415168229,"sku":"NP9780262544191","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544191.jpg?v=1767744136","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/whiteness-isbn-9780262544191","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}