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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary F Brewer |
ISBN: | 0819567698 9780819567697 0819567701 9780819567703 |
OCLC Number: | 57669756 |
Description: | xvi, 236 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "That's white of you ... ": civilizing whiteness -- The borders of whiteness in the New World -- Whiteness in Post-Imperial Britain -- Locating race in postwar U.S. culture -- Countercultures of whiteness -- Undigestible difference: Powellism and new white racism -- The white backlash: a second U.S. revolution -- "Swamped by people with a different culture": race, sexuality, and the active British citizen. |
Responsibility: | Mary F. Brewer. |
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Abstract:
How whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.
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"Staging Whiteness is a work of great ambition and reach, providing at once an apt introduction to the critical study of whiteness and an arresting application of such study to Anglo-American "theorists and theater makers" over the last century and more." -- David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois Read more...
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