After whiteness : unmaking an American majority / Mike Hill.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-261) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: After Whiteness Eve -- I. Incalculable Community: Multiracialism, U.S. Census 2000, and the Crisis of the Liberal State -- 1.1. Labor Formalism -- 1.2. Dissensus 2000 -- 1.3. Will to Category -- 1.4. Rebirth of a Nation? -- 1.5. America, Not Counting Class -- II. Fascism of Benevolence: God and Family in the Father-Shaped Void -- 2.1. Of Communism and Castration -- 2.2. Muscular Multiculturalism -- 2.3. When Color is the Father -- 2.4. Certain Gesture of Virility -- 2.5. Eros of Warfare -- III. Race Among Ruins: Whiteness, Work, and Writing in the New University -- 3.1. Between Jobs and Work -- 3.2. Multiversity's Diversity -- 3.3. After Whiteness Studies -- 3.4. Multitude or Culturalism? -- 3.5. How Color Saved the Canon.

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ""Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's.

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