The specter of whiteness
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
ISBN: 978-1-84663-930-2, eISBN: 978-1-84663-931-9
Publication date: 25 July 2008
Abstract
This article draws from ethnomethodology and poststructural discourse analysis to examine commonsense knowledge about whiteness and white racial identities. In order to get at that which most broadly passes as matters of commonsense in the United States, the research design includes analysis of both interview and television data. I make two sets of concurrent arguments, one that regards the production of whiteness as a kind of normalcy against which race and racialization is made meaningful and another concerned with the analytical power derived by combining ethnomethodology and poststructural discourse analysis. I illustrate local practices for interrupting hegemonic reproductions of whiteness and conclude with methodological considerations.
Citation
Pascale, C.-M. (2008), "The specter of whiteness", Denzin, N.K. (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 30), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(08)30010-6
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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