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The Future of Whiteness
Linda Martin Alcoff
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Description for The Future of Whiteness
Hardcover. White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: 'to take our country back.' Meanwhile the spectre of 'minority status' draws closer, and the material advantages of being born white are eroding. This is the political and cultural ... Read more
White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: 'to take our country back.' Meanwhile the spectre of 'minority status' draws closer, and the material advantages of being born white are eroding. This is the political and cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745685441
SKU
V9780745685441
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About Linda Martin Alcoff
Linda Martin Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College
Reviews for The Future of Whiteness
A profound meditation on 'whiteness' its past, its present, and its possible future by one of our leading scholars of race. Deftly interweaving theory, autobiography, and her own personal history of antiracist activism, Linda Martin Alcoff has produced the most impressive philosophical exploration ever of this peculiar 'world-historical' social identity. Charles Mills, Northwestern University Against the contemporary backdrop ... Read more