Whiteness on the Border explores the vexed ways in which white identity in the U.S. has historically been forged in opposition to a Mexican 'other.' Displaying mastery of the intellectual traditions of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies, Lee Bebout draws deftly on complicated concepts to show that while there is always racism, there is never only a singular homogenous ... Read moreracism, but instead many differentiated and tactically deployed racisms. Brimming with exceptional critical acumen, Whiteness on the Border will be a book of significant impact and influence. -George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes Place With wit, passion, rigor, Whiteness on the Border breaks down the logic of white supremacy. Innovative and dynamic, Lee Bebout's critical study drops onto the world at a key moment. We are living through a backlash against multiculturalism and against the civil rights movement. Something has changed; something has turned, and Bebout's timely study helps us to chart the depth of this bracing cultural metastasis. -William Anthony Nericcio,author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of Mexicans in America Show Less