White ethnicity

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White ethnicity

• Lecture 11

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Part 1 White Ethnicity studies

• Growing body of lit 1990s
• Black writers on white ethnicity
• White ethnicity unmarked norm
• The universal we
• Particularity of blackness
• White success
• without intentionality

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Part 2 White Ethnicity and Culture

• No culture?
• What it is not
• Indescribable norm
• Wrong to argue no culture
• How whites see culture
• Culture as process

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Part 3 Researching white ethnicity

• Danger reaffirm power and normalcy
• Problems of language
• Interviews and fieldwork
• a) avoid answering questions
• b) legitimate racist views
• c) reassert normalcy

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Part 4 Moments of questioning

• Continuing struggles in academia and everyday
• Frankenberg and moments of questioning
• Research in Coalville
• Twines study

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Part 5 Ethnographic examples

• Power evasion
• Colour Blind Approach
• Third Person
• Dyer and Photography