White Folks

Race and Identity in Rural America
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-67620-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

White Folks explores the experiences and stories of eight white people from a small farming community in northern Wisconsin. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Delores, Frank, William, Erin, Robert, Libby, and Stan, as well as on his own experiences growing up in this same rural community, Lensmire creates a portrait of white people that highlights the profound ambivalence that has characterized white thinking and feeling in relation to people of color for at least the last two hundred years. White people’s relations to people of color and their cultures are characterized not just by fear, rejection, and violence, but also by attraction, envy, and desire. There is nothing smooth about the souls of white folks.

This second edition of White Folks features a new foreword—by renowned critical whiteness studies scholar David Roediger—that places the book in historical and political context. It also includes an expanded discussion by Lensmire on doing research on race with white people.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lensmire, Timothy J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. The Forethought. Chapter 1. How I became white while punching de tar baby. Chapter 2. We learned the wrong things and went underground. Chapter 3. We use racial others. Chapter 4. .and hope and stumble. The Afterthought. Methodological Appendix. References.

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy J. Lensmire is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in literacy, critical pedagogy, and race.