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Establishing the Fact of Whiteness
Author(s) -
Hartigan John
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1997.99.3.495
Subject(s) - pace , race (biology) , reproduction , sociology , subject (documents) , object (grammar) , gender studies , inequality , aesthetics , art , geography , computer science , ecology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , geodesy , artificial intelligence , library science , biology
Surveying public discourses on race, one suspects that anthropologists and academics are struggling to keep pace with the innovations and obsessions this subject generates in popular culture. But academic discussions of whiteness and the way it operates may provide a means of altering the terms of racial debates. As an analytical object, whiteness is being established as a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems of racial inequality. Studies of whiteness are demonstrating that whites benefit from a host of social arrangements and institutional operations that seem, to whites, to have no racial basis.