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Title: Race as category crisis : whiteness and the topical assignation of race
Related: Social semiotics, Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. 149-168
DOI: 10.1080/103503302760212078
Publisher: Carfax Publishing
Date: 2002
Author/Creator: Pugliese, Joseph
Description: In this essay, I examine whiteness along two different axes. First, I discuss, in the context of Richard Dyer's White , the manner in which discussions of whiteness tend to be decontextualised and dehistoricised. Fundamentally, in White , whiteness is represented in terms of a homogeneous and self-identical category. In the second part of my essay, I focus on how racialised bodies, once they are situated within a specific historico-cultural context, complicate and problematise unitary and homogenised concepts of whiteness. I argue that the power and endurace of whiteness emerges out of its historical dispersions and geo-political mobility.
Description: 20 page(s)
Subject Keyword: ethnic groups
Subject Keyword: racial discrimination
Subject Keyword: genealogy
Subject Keyword: immigration
Subject Keyword: Australia - social history
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Critical and Cultural Studies

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