The Whiteness of the Whale: A Novel by David Poyer
Description : An antiwhaling expedition to the freezing Antarctic takes a violent turn in this powerful novel from bestselling author and sailor David Poyer.After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard’s career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins...more..
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Description : America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and co...more..
Amazon Price : $27.50

Whiteness: An Introduction by Steve Garner
Description : What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives is to make the familiar unfamiliar in ...more..
Amazon Price : $55.95

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Description : The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.Toni Morrison's...more..
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
Description : In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that...more..
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipsitz
Description : In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal feelings and acts of individual prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produced unfair gains ...more..
Amazon Price : $28.95

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Description : Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.  In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how...more..
Amazon Price : $16.00

Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk
Description : Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor r...more..
Amazon Price : $27.95

Up Against Whiteness: Race, School And Immigrant Youth by Stacey J. Lee
Description : Pushing the boundaries of Asian American educational discourse, this book explores the way a group of first- and second-generation Hmong students created their identities as "new Americans" in response to their school experiences....more..
Amazon Price : $24.95

The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
Description : In her ravishing and moving second novel, the bestselling author of In the Cut tells the story of Mamie Clarke, who sets out to lose herself in New York City.Having only previously known the fragile, magical world of her childhood on the lush Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, Mamie leaves ...more..
Amazon Price : $13.00