Ruth Frankenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Frankenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Frankenberg |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKENBERG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 292 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
The phrase "the invisibility of whiteness" refers in part to moments when whiteness does not speak its own name. It is also crucial to contemplate just how recently many explicit namings of whiteness went underground in the United States. One irony of writing about whiteness&s;s invisibility is that the late 1990s have witnessed intense debate over whiteness in academia, in the media, in classrooms, and in many private worlds. Meanwhile, the effo…
White Women, Race Matters
This chapter seeks to explain the invisibility and modes of visibility of racism, race difference, and whiteness. It discusses a feminist commitment to drawing on women’s daily lives as a resource for analyzing society. The chapter draws on both theoretical and substantive analyses of race, racism, and colonialism in the United States and beyond. It argues that the discourse against interracial relationships entails specifically racialized constr…
Introduction: Local Whitenesses, Localizing Whiteness
Cracks in the Façade: Whiteness and the Construction of 9/11
This article analyses whiteness and Americanness in relation to the drama and trauma of 9/11/01. It argues that drawing upon the history of whiteness, and its psychological and psychic legacy, provides fresh perspective on US national responses to the events of September 11, 2001. It examines the semiotic frames by means of which that day, and those events, are named, and the impact of a white hegemony upon those articulations. Secondly, it argue…
Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemology
In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today. Frankenberg provides a nuanced consideration of the making and living of religious lives as well as the mystery and poetry of spiritual practice. She undertakes a subtle sociocultural analysis of compelling in-depth interviews with fifty women and men…
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
The phrase invisibility of refers in part to moments when whiteness does not speak its own name. It is also crucial to contemplate just how recently many explicit namings of whiteness went underground in the United States. One irony of writing about whiteness's invisibility is that the late 1990s have witnessed intense debate over whiteness in academia, in the media, in classrooms, and in many private worlds. Meanwhile, the efforts of other white…
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, ‘Post-coloniality’ and the Politics of Location
This chapter had its immediate point of origin in the invitation to contribute to a lecture series on ‘Post-coloniality and California’ in the spring of 1991. Commonplace as the term ‘post-coloniality’ has rapidly become in literature, anthropology and Cultural Studies in recent times, the title begged a number of questions, about the notion of ‘post-coloniality’ and its efficacy, either in relation to California in particular, or to the United S…
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singula…
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, pra…
Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location
1993). Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location. Cultural Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 292-310
Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood
The Challenge of Orientalism
This paper offers a reading of Said's Orientalism and a critical 'review of reviews'; of the book. Our analysis is informed by our definition of Orientalism as a discourse whose key aspects are historical specificity, knowledge and power. We argue that a number of reviews of the text are marked by a severing of these three components. Said's text and its reviews are examined thematically. Our concerns include the separation of general questions o…
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singula…
Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location
1993). Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location. Cultural Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 292-310
The Challenge of Orientalism
This paper offers a reading of Said's Orientalism and a critical 'review of reviews'; of the book. Our analysis is informed by our definition of Orientalism as a discourse whose key aspects are historical specificity, knowledge and power. We argue that a number of reviews of the text are marked by a severing of these three components. Said's text and its reviews are examined thematically. Our concerns include the separation of general questions o…
Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood
Cracks in the Façade: Whiteness and the Construction of 9/11
This article analyses whiteness and Americanness in relation to the drama and trauma of 9/11/01. It argues that drawing upon the history of whiteness, and its psychological and psychic legacy, provides fresh perspective on US national responses to the events of September 11, 2001. It examines the semiotic frames by means of which that day, and those events, are named, and the impact of a white hegemony upon those articulations. Secondly, it argue…
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, pra…
The Challenge of Orientalism
This paper offers a reading of Said's Orientalism and a critical 'review of reviews'; of the book. Our analysis is informed by our definition of Orientalism as a discourse whose key aspects are historical specificity, knowledge and power. We argue that a number of reviews of the text are marked by a severing of these three components. Said's text and its reviews are examined thematically. Our concerns include the separation of general questions o…
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular experiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, pra…
Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location
1993). Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location. Cultural Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 292-310
Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions. Approaching whiteness as a plural rather than singula…
Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, ‘Post-coloniality’ and the Politics of Location
This chapter had its immediate point of origin in the invitation to contribute to a lecture series on ‘Post-coloniality and California’ in the spring of 1991. Commonplace as the term ‘post-coloniality’ has rapidly become in literature, anthropology and Cultural Studies in recent times, the title begged a number of questions, about the notion of ‘post-coloniality’ and its efficacy, either in relation to California in particular, or to the United S…
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
The phrase invisibility of refers in part to moments when whiteness does not speak its own name. It is also crucial to contemplate just how recently many explicit namings of whiteness went underground in the United States. One irony of writing about whiteness's invisibility is that the late 1990s have witnessed intense debate over whiteness in academia, in the media, in classrooms, and in many private worlds. Meanwhile, the efforts of other white…
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemology
In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today. Frankenberg provides a nuanced consideration of the making and living of religious lives as well as the mystery and poetry of spiritual practice. She undertakes a subtle sociocultural analysis of compelling in-depth interviews with fifty women and men…
Cracks in the Façade: Whiteness and the Construction of 9/11
This article analyses whiteness and Americanness in relation to the drama and trauma of 9/11/01. It argues that drawing upon the history of whiteness, and its psychological and psychic legacy, provides fresh perspective on US national responses to the events of September 11, 2001. It examines the semiotic frames by means of which that day, and those events, are named, and the impact of a white hegemony upon those articulations. Secondly, it argue…
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
The phrase "the invisibility of whiteness" refers in part to moments when whiteness does not speak its own name. It is also crucial to contemplate just how recently many explicit namings of whiteness went underground in the United States. One irony of writing about whiteness&s;s invisibility is that the late 1990s have witnessed intense debate over whiteness in academia, in the media, in classrooms, and in many private worlds. Meanwhile, the effo…
White Women, Race Matters
This chapter seeks to explain the invisibility and modes of visibility of racism, race difference, and whiteness. It discusses a feminist commitment to drawing on women’s daily lives as a resource for analyzing society. The chapter draws on both theoretical and substantive analyses of race, racism, and colonialism in the United States and beyond. It argues that the discourse against interracial relationships entails specifically racialized constr…
Introduction: Local Whitenesses, Localizing Whiteness
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race (biology) (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)