Whiteness
The Communication of Social Identity
Thomas K. Nakayama
- Northeastern University, USA
Judith N. Martin
- Arizona State University, USA
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Whiteness is a collection of outstanding essays that employs a range of approaches to understanding whiteness a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Included as well are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness. Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin conclude with specific claims out white identity and about the ways multi-methodological approaches to communication offer new insights into research.
Both timely and intriguing, this collection of articles will further our understanding of intercultural communication.
Contents
Introduction
- Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity
Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS
- Whiteness and Beyond
- Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges
- What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans
- White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as <i>Apologia</i>
- Wendell Berry's <i>The Hidden Wound</i>
- <i>We Celebrate 100 years</i>
- An `Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA
PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTSTRUCTURALIST VIEWS ON WHITENESS
- Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric
- Whiteness and the Politics of Location
- Postcolonial Reflections
- White Difference
- Cultural Constructions of White Identity
- Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics
PART THREE: WHITENESS IN U.S. CONTEXTS
- White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology
- The Discursive Production of `Good (White) Girls'
- The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations
- In the Shadow of Whiteness
- The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics
PART FOUR: WHITENESS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
- Provincializing Whiteness
- Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress
- White Identity in Context
- A Personal Narrative
- One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses
- From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism
Description
Whiteness is a collection of outstanding essays that employs a range of approaches to understanding whiteness a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Included as well are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness. Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin conclude with specific claims out white identity and about the ways multi-methodological approaches to communication offer new insights into research.
Both timely and intriguing, this collection of articles will further our understanding of intercultural communication.
Contents
Introduction
- Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity
Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS
- Whiteness and Beyond
- Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges
- What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans
- White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as <i>Apologia</i>
- Wendell Berry's <i>The Hidden Wound</i>
- <i>We Celebrate 100 years</i>
- An `Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA
PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTSTRUCTURALIST VIEWS ON WHITENESS
- Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric
- Whiteness and the Politics of Location
- Postcolonial Reflections
- White Difference
- Cultural Constructions of White Identity
- Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics
PART THREE: WHITENESS IN U.S. CONTEXTS
- White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology
- The Discursive Production of `Good (White) Girls'
- The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations
- In the Shadow of Whiteness
- The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics
PART FOUR: WHITENESS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
- Provincializing Whiteness
- Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress
- White Identity in Context
- A Personal Narrative
- One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses
- From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism
Reviews
November 1998 | 328 pages | Sage US
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 28/02/2026 | 9780761908623 | $286.00 |
Whiteness is a collection of outstanding essays that employs a range of approaches to understanding whiteness a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Included as well are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness. Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin conclude with specific claims out white identity and about the ways multi-methodological approaches to communication offer new insights into research.
Both timely and intriguing, this collection of articles will further our understanding of intercultural communication.
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity
- Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies
- PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS
- Whiteness and Beyond
- Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges
- What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans
- White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as <i>Apologia</i>
- Wendell Berry's <i>The Hidden Wound</i>
- <i>We Celebrate 100 years</i>
- An `Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA
- PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTSTRUCTURALIST VIEWS ON WHITENESS
- Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric
- Whiteness and the Politics of Location
- Postcolonial Reflections
- White Difference
- Cultural Constructions of White Identity
- Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics
- PART THREE: WHITENESS IN U.S. CONTEXTS
- White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology
- The Discursive Production of `Good (White) Girls'
- The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations
- In the Shadow of Whiteness
- The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics
- PART FOUR: WHITENESS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
- Provincializing Whiteness
- Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress
- White Identity in Context
- A Personal Narrative
- One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses
- From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism
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". . .encourages the reader to consider different definitions of whiteness. . .a worthwhile addition to the literature on communication."
Jennifer L. Eichstedt, Humboldt State University, California