| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 1. The Gratifications of Whiteness -- 2. Whiteness as Wage: Reaping the Rewards of Racial Capitalism -- 3. Whiteness as Pleasure: Anti-Black Brutality and Sadistic Enjoyment -- 4. Whiteness as Dominion: The Racial-Colonial Ethos of Ownership -- 5. Resistances: Du Boisean Propaganda, World Building, and Black Lives Matter -- Epilogue: Abolitionist Possibilities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In The Gratifications of Whiteness, Ella Myers looks at W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness to argue that his writings offer powerful insights into the rewards that white identity has offered to Americans, both in the past and present. Focusing on three key motifs found in his work--wage, pleasure, dominion--Myers shows that to Du Bois, whiteness is not one thing, but many. Highlighting how Du Bois can help us recognize contemporary whiteness as a multifaceted formation, this book explores the pressing contemporary issue of what it means to be white through the lens deve |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Racism -- Whiteness
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197556795 |
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0197556795 |
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