 Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectivesreviewed by Kathy Hytten — 2003  Title: Working Through Whiteness: International PerspectivesAuthor(s): Cynthia Levine-Rasky (Editor) Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0-7914-5340-5, Pages: 363, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Over the past decade there has been a proliferation of work in whiteness studies. In large part this has been a response to the call by scholars of color for whites to locate ourselves as racialized subjects, and to see how our whiteness significantly impacts the way we see the world. This work in whiteness studies has gone in many different theoretical directions, and spans a variety of disciplines and genres. Cynthia Levine-Rasky locates her new edited collection, Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives within this body of research, offering that all the contributors in her collection share a commitment to “interrogating whiteness as a problematic and complex category that has too long avoided naming itself as [a] powerful participant in an inequitable social order” (p. 13). While the dimensions of whiteness studies investigated by the authors in this collection significantly overlap, and concurrently reinforce, much of the existing body of whiteness literature, the unique contribution that Levine-Rasky posits are the international contexts, which provide “a useful counterpoint... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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