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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface
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Chapter 1. White people - What do we
want?
A strange logic * What do we want? *
Reality and myth * Pop quiz * Walking the tightrope * Not all white
people are the same
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Chapter 2. What will it take to create a
multiracial society?
What is a multiracial society? * What do
we have now? * Monoracial and multiracial structures * Looking at
some numbers * Interracial marriage - An example * What about other
areas of our society? * What will it take to create a multiracial
society? * What do white people need to do?
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Chapter 3. Remedial education for white
folk
Physical and social reality * Culture *
Cultural membership(s) * Cultural practices * Purpose of culture *
Cultural location and change * Race * Biological definitions *
Social definitions * Comparing social and biological explanations *
Race and culture * Race as a cultural formation * White American
culture
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Chapter 4. Colorblindness, personified
From the margins to the center, historical
development * As an idealized goal * As a legal theory * As a
culturally-based set of beliefs * As a political theory * A big
step * Will it bring us a multiracial society? * Radical
colorblindness * Colorblindness - reconsidered * Mend it;
don’t end it
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Chapter 5. How did it all begin?
1607 - 1622: Forging a common identity *
1623 - 1669: English, indeed, but not yet white * 1670 - 1705: The
birth of whiteness * 1706 - 1780: The (white) Rights of Men * 1781
- 1860: The birth of the white American character
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Chapter 6. Looking at white American
culture
Who owns a culture? * We can all be
(white) Americans * Our culture, in the American context * The
dominant subculture * Characteristics of contemporary white
American culture * Everyday interaction * Believing is seeing (or
not seeing)
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Chapter 7. Inside the white experience
White racial identity * Innocence and
guilt * Shame, shame, shame * White pride * Two sides of the same
coin (internalized oppression and internalized dominance)
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Chapter 8. The academy awakens
Asking the right question * Laying the
foundations * A structure deeper than words * Troubled visions
among feminists * Representation of what? * Twenty years in the
making * Putting whiteness on the map * Whiteness studies – a
tourist’s view * Is it a good thing? * Coming soon to a
university near you
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Chapter 9. Grass roots, old, deep, and
spreading
The first conference on whiteness *
Government * Business * Church groups – spiritual approaches
* The news media * Public interest groups * Center for the Study of
White American Culture, Inc. * The public
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Chapter 10. Moving toward a multiracial
future
Why think about whiteness? * The problem
of the 21st century * Access to power and resources * What are we
for? * Another model * Relations between white culture and cultures
of color * Comparison to other models * Let’s be clear on
some things * Multiracial settings are the norm * Decentering
whiteness * Where to begin
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Appendix
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Notes
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Index
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