REPLY: "Whiteness" as a racial category

H-AFRICA---Mel Page (AFRICA@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:16:36 GMT-5

Date sent: Wed, 23 Aug 1995
From: Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College
<tburke1@swarthmore.edu>

[cross posted from H-WORLD@msu.edu]

Another book that might illuminate the subject of "whiteness" in a
broader vein is James G. Carrier, ed., *Occidentalism: Images of the
West*.

There is also a remarkably rich South African literature on the
subject of whiteness and its construction; I would include Rian
Malan, *My Traitor's Heart*, Marq de Villiers, *White Tribe
Dreaming*, Vincent Crapanzano, *Waiting*, and possibly judging from
what I've heard of it, Saul duBow's new book *Scientific Racism in
Modern South Africa*.

There was also an issue of the *Village Voice* a ways back with a
bunch of stories published under the heading "White Like Me"; I can
probably dig out the exact cite if anyone's interested.