whtns -- Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues
About whtns	English (USA)
The group supports and expands the work of the inter-disciplinary conference and publishing project which aims to explore issues arising from possible interpretations of the term Whiteness. Since the publication of Richard Dyer’s seminal study White in 1997, academics have increasingly turned critical attention to the subject of racial whiteness. Publications include historical accounts detailing the emergence of whiteness as a racial category, cultural studies exploring the representation and construction of white identities in popular culture, film and television scholars examining narratives about white people, reflecting white themes, white obsessions, and white anxieties. Consistent with the shift in critical studies from minority identity formations to consider ‘central’ identities – masculinity, heterosexuality – the study of whiteness is increasingly understood as central to understanding the operation of ‘race’ as a form of social categorisation. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the whtns Archives.
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