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The Making of White American Identity

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ron EyermanPublish date:9/6/2022Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197658949ISBN-10:197658946UPC:9780197658949Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Sociology, Social HistoryBook Topic:Social TheorySize:9.31 x 6.06 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCBEJC9XJ7
An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history.

In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the United States. Drawing upon his previous work on the formation of African American identity, as well as cultural trauma theory, collective memory, and social movements, he reveals how and under what conditions such a collective identification emerges, as well as how the mobilization of collective action around an ideology of whiteness and white superiority. Eyerman explores how the American identity was, and is still being established, through both historical and more recent events, including the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the election of a Black president, the Charlottesville confrontation, and the violent conflict at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He further shows how each event revitalized the trauma narratives stemming from the nation's founding tensions, mobilizing social forces around the idea of white superiority and white consciousness. Tracing the historical contexts and social conditions under which individuals and groups move through this process, the author also looks forward at the prospects of the ideology of white supremacy as a political force in the United States.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197658949ISBN-10:197658946UPC:9780197658949Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Sociology, Social HistoryBook Topic:Social TheorySize:9.31 x 6.06 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SCBEJC9XJ7
Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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