Erik T Withers
Biographic Data
| ID | 305928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik T Withers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik T |
| FAMILY NAME | Withers |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERS E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–River Falls |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5900-1903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding Racism as Systemic: The Process of Learning
Helping people learn about racism as systemic rather than as solely or even primarily as an individual and interpersonal phenomenon is important. In this study, we examined how two different courses may have affected the racial attitudes and understandings of our students. We found that students in both an introductory and an upper‐level course showed significant increases in the understanding of racism as systemic, using both quantitative and qu…
Keep Culture, Lose the Reductionism: Exploring Contemporary Cultural Spaces as Sites of Power Maintenance and Resistance
In this article, we argue for the importance of investigating cultural spaces in connection to social inequalities. Within cultural spaces, culture in both material and nonmaterial forms is used in ways that bolster privilege, provide means for people and groups to navigate inequalities, and offers avenues for contesting inequalities. We critically examine some of the past and present ways that culture and inequalities have been studied together.…
The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning
This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors' research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces-neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few-and do so from a theoretical …
Old Jobs, New Vibes: How Distilling, Bartending, Barbering, and Butchering Became Cool
Whiteness and culture
In this article, I argue that culture is the means through which whiteness (a state of normalized white racial domination) is accomplished. The scope of this article is on racism, race, and culture in a U.S. context. Within the racialized social system of the United States, culture develops in ways that secure racial interests and maintain racial hierarchy. The aim is to give readers an overview of how the concepts of culture and race have been a…
The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning
This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors' research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces-neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few-and do so from a theoretical …
Whiteness and culture
In this article, I argue that culture is the means through which whiteness (a state of normalized white racial domination) is accomplished. The scope of this article is on racism, race, and culture in a U.S. context. Within the racialized social system of the United States, culture develops in ways that secure racial interests and maintain racial hierarchy. The aim is to give readers an overview of how the concepts of culture and race have been a…
Whiteness and culture
In this article, I argue that culture is the means through which whiteness (a state of normalized white racial domination) is accomplished. The scope of this article is on racism, race, and culture in a U.S. context. Within the racialized social system of the United States, culture develops in ways that secure racial interests and maintain racial hierarchy. The aim is to give readers an overview of how the concepts of culture and race have been a…
Keep Culture, Lose the Reductionism: Exploring Contemporary Cultural Spaces as Sites of Power Maintenance and Resistance
In this article, we argue for the importance of investigating cultural spaces in connection to social inequalities. Within cultural spaces, culture in both material and nonmaterial forms is used in ways that bolster privilege, provide means for people and groups to navigate inequalities, and offers avenues for contesting inequalities. We critically examine some of the past and present ways that culture and inequalities have been studied together.…
The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning
This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors' research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces-neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few-and do so from a theoretical …
Old Jobs, New Vibes: How Distilling, Bartending, Barbering, and Butchering Became Cool
Understanding Racism as Systemic: The Process of Learning
Helping people learn about racism as systemic rather than as solely or even primarily as an individual and interpersonal phenomenon is important. In this study, we examined how two different courses may have affected the racial attitudes and understandings of our students. We found that students in both an introductory and an upper‐level course showed significant increases in the understanding of racism as systemic, using both quantitative and qu…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)