Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Estudos da branquitude" in Portuguese language version.
The field of “Whiteness Studies,” as it is often termed in academic circles, has existed for decades. Writers ... have looked at the way whiteness has evolved as an ideology and a construct. In doing so, they have called into question the supposed objectivity of the work of generations of straight, white, male scholars
In this essay I will provide a brief overview of over a hundred books and articles from fields including literary criticism, history, cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture, communication studies, music history, art history, dance history, humor studies, philosophy, linguistics, and folklore, all published between 1990 and 1995 or forthcoming shortly. Taken together, I believe, they mark the early 1990s as a defining moment in the study of American culture.
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(ajuda)In this essay I will provide a brief overview of over a hundred books and articles from fields including literary criticism, history, cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture, communication studies, music history, art history, dance history, humor studies, philosophy, linguistics, and folklore, all published between 1990 and 1995 or forthcoming shortly. Taken together, I believe, they mark the early 1990s as a defining moment in the study of American culture.
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(ajuda)Rather, it is a formal re-articulation of whiteness as a social category and a racial interest group. For decades now, scholars have been writing about the invisibility of whiteness. To be white in America meant that you were a member of the default category that just isn’t discussed.
“How the Irish Became White” is among a group of books that have been foundational to what became known as whiteness studies, a field that examines the structures that produce white privilege.
That is because race is about power, not biology, said Charles King, a political science professor at Georgetown University. “The closer you get to social power, the closer you get to whiteness,” said Dr. King, author of a coming book on Franz Boas, the early 20th-century anthropologist who argued against theories of racial difference.
If you have been the token Indigenous student in your class, or if you have simply entered white education spaces, you may understand the complexities of having to negotiate your Indigenous identity in order to achieve the narrative of success.
Academics and researchers have taught classes and published works on "Whiteness" and the field of "critical Whiteness studies" since the '90s. "Whiteness" is an academic term that refers not to race but to a multilayered concept: how whites are viewed by society, how they view themselves, and the implications of those perceptions, such as social norms and discrimination.
Examining what whiteness is — analyzing it as a race, a culture, and a concept that has fueled racism — isn't new, particularly in academia.
The syllabus described Critical Whiteness Studies as a field “concerned with dismantling white supremacy in part by understanding how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced.”