Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Whiteness is the unspoken, invisible default setting of American life. We frame our conversations about race in terms of how white people see and what they think they see. We imagine that nonwhite Americans want to be more like white Americans. We imagine that to be American is to be white. When racial minorities complain about the slurs of a Paula Deen or a prank like the faked names of the Asiana pilots, they are often told by whites to stop being so sensitive or to take the context of tradition or history or humor into account. That ability, to dismiss and minimize people of color for being oversensitive, is itself one of the privileges that whiteness confers. The broader privilege that whites have by occupying the omniscient vantage point in media and civic life has to be named and then undone.

Eric Liu, “Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible,” Time Magazine (July 17, 2013). http://ideas.time.com/2013/07/17/trayvon-martin-and-making-whiteness-visible

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture

Posted in Books, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2013-02-18 18:40Z by Steven

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture

Rutgers University Press
August 1994
215 pages
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2105-X
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2374-5

Maureen T. Reddy, Professor of English
Rhode Island College

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. On Lines and Bridges
2. Starting Out
3. “Why Do White People Have Vaginas?”
4. “One Drop of Black Blood”
5. The Fourth R
6. Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Comrades
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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