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Whiteness As Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention With Joyce Carol Oates’S Bellefleur And Cheryl Harris’S “Whiteness As Property”, Karen Gaffney Feb 2015

Whiteness As Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention With Joyce Carol Oates’S Bellefleur And Cheryl Harris’S “Whiteness As Property”, Karen Gaffney

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

This article begins with the assertion that now more than ever, in the aftermath of Ferguson and in a time when many believe our society to be post-racial, we need to bring together scholars and activists who care about racial justice, regardless of discipline, and build interdisciplinary tools for fighting racism. Furthermore, we need to understand and reveal how whiteness has been socially constructed because the power of whiteness lies in its invisibility, and that fuels the perpetuation of systemic racism. In making whiteness visible, we can see how it has been wielded as a weapon, which in turn will …


White Male Nostalgia In Don Delillo's Underworld, Tim Engles Jan 2015

White Male Nostalgia In Don Delillo's Underworld, Tim Engles

Tim Engles

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White Male Nostalgia In Don Delillo's Underworld, Tim Engles Jan 2015

White Male Nostalgia In Don Delillo's Underworld, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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