White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness

by Ruth Frankenberg

Book Overview

American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Book Award winner

Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights's Outstanding Book Award winner

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622582
• ISBN13: 9780816622580
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

One more of Ruth Frankenberg's brilliant works, Recommended

One more of Ruth Frankenberg's brilliant works, I agree with the Recommended Also: Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemology The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India

Thought Provoking and Necessary

White Women, Race Matters is one of the first books which takes on the monumental task of 'decentralizing' white culture. Through interviews with white women, the author describes, delineates and discusses not only 'whiteness' but how and why we (they) construct it. While this is an academic book, it would be beneficial reading for almost every American.