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WHITENESS - MARTIN LUND TASCHENBUCH

The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created  how it changes  and how
it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white. This volume in the MIT Press
Essential Knowledge series examines the socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness  tracing
its creation  its changing formation  and its power to privilege and protect people who are
perceived as white. Whiteness  author Martin Lund explains  is not one single idea but a
shifting  overarching category  a flexible cluster of historically  culturally  and
geographically contingent ideals and standards that enable systems of hierarchical
classification. Lund discusses words used to talk about whiteness  from white privilege to
white fragility  the intersections of whiteness with race  class  and gender  whiteness in
popular culture  and such ideas as colorblindness and reverse racism  which  he argues 
actually uphold whiteness. Lund shows why it is important to keep talking and thinking about
whiteness. The word whiteness  he writes  doesn't describe  it conjures something into being.
Drawing on decades of critical whiteness studies and citing a range of examples (primarily from
the United States and Sweden)  Lund argues that whiteness is continually manufactured and
sustained through language  laws  policies  science  and representations in media and popular
culture. It is often positioned as normative  even universal. And despite its innocuous-seeming
manifestations in sitcoms and superheroes  whiteness is always in the service of racial
domination.

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