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Free Download Whiteness and Stigma in the Workplace: Organisation and Work in South Africa
by Anne Crafford
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031098102 | 317 Pages | True PDF | 5.48 MB

Free Download Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 By Jerry Dávila
2003 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0822330709 | PDF | 10 MB
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition. Jerry Dávila explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. He demonstrates how, in the period between the world wars, the dramatic proliferation of social policy initiatives in Brazil was subtly but powerfully shaped by beliefs that racially mixed and nonwhite Brazilians could be symbolically, if not physically, whitened through changes in culture, habits, and health.Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, Diploma of Whiteness shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention. Analyzing primary material-including school system records, teacher journals, photographs, private letters, and unpublished documents-Dávila traces the emergence of racially coded hiring practices and student-tracking policies as well as the development of a social and scientific philosophy of eugenics. He contends that the implementation of the various policies intended to "improve" nonwhites institutionalized subtle barriers to their equitable integration into Brazilian society.

Free Download Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative By Barbara Heron
2007 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1554580013 | PDF | 2 MB
In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants to bring theory to life and to generate new understandings of whiteness and development work. Heron reveals how the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered, and she exposes the moral core of this self and its seemingly paradoxical necessity to the Other. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the NorthSouth binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the "good guys" of the world.

Free Download The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) by David R. Roediger, Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
English | 2017 | ISBN: B072FRY6PX | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 8 hours and 45 minutes | 240 Mb
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
In a new preface, Roediger reflects on the reception, influence, and critical response to The Wages of Whiteness, while Kathleen Cleaver’s insightful introduction hails the importance of a work that has become a classic.

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Free Download T Storm Heter East Stroudsburg Universi professor director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, "The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening "
English | ISBN: 153816261X | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press, while ignoring critiques of the white consumption of black culture. Ironically, critiques of whiteness are found not only in black literature and media, but also within the blues, jazz, and spirituals that whites listened to, loved, collected, and archived.

Free Download Cheryl Matias, "Surviving Becky(s): Pedagogies for Deconstructing Whiteness and Gender "
English | ISBN: 1498587623 | 2019 | 326 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The infamous rise in characterizations of white women as Becky(s) is a modern phenomenon, different from past characterizations like the Miss Anne types. But just who embodies the Becky? Why is it important to understand, especially with regards to anti-racism and racial justice? Understanding that learning, even discussing, dynamics of race and gender are oftentimes met with discomfort and emotional resistance, this creative, yet theoretical book merges social science analyses with literary short stories as a way to more effectively teach about the impact of whiteness and gender. Additionally, the book includes guiding questions so that readers can critically reflect on the behaviors of Becky(s) and how they impact the hope for racial harmony. Designed specifically for both educational spaces and the larger society, the author, an educational researcher and former classroom teacher, approaches the topic of race and gender, specifically whiteness and white women, in a nuanced manner. By borrowing from traditions found in critical race theory and teacher education, this book offers both counterstories and anecdotes that can help people better understand the dynamics behind race and gender.

Free Download Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace: A Guide for Equity and Inclusion
by Janice Gassam Asare, PhD
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1523005556 | 209 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.19 MB

Free Download Mariya Nikolova, "How Whiteness Claimed the Future: The Always New vs The Always Now in US-American Literature "
English | ISBN: 3110799715 | 2023 | 178 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1270 KB + 2 MB
Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America’s property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, all these capacities have been denied to Black bodies ever since colonization. Black work has been fetishized, appropriated, stolen, and dismissed in and by dominant culture, while Black being is construed as negativity and barred on the level of ontology. It follows then that racialization operates on multiple levels in the conceptual frame of renewal. I study this conceptualization by re-reading the works of and criticism on progressive white authors. I examine how images of renewal enable the claim on futurity, transformative potential, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Premised on oppositions between positive capacities and a state of complete incapacitation, these images are often viewed as separate constructions. This project shows that, deriving from white ideology, such representations are symbiotic and simultaneous – the "good" story of white renewal rests on the continual transgression towards Black being.

Free Download Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons By Jane Lazarre
2016 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0822374145 | PDF | 13 MB
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing sons, and their extended family. Recounting her education, as a wife, mother, and scholar-teacher, into the realities of African American life, Lazarre shows how although racism and white privilege lie at the heart of American history and culture, any of us can comprehend the experience of another through empathy and learning. This Twentieth Anniversary Edition features a new preface, in which Lazarre’s elegy for Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many others, reminds us of the continued resonance of race in American life. As #BlackLivesMatter gains momentum, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is more urgent and essential than ever.

Free Download Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity By Thomas K. Nakayama, Judith N. Martin
1998 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0761908625 | PDF | 44 MB
This collection of outstanding essays employs a range of approaches to understanding `whiteness′ as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data results, poststructuralist theoretical discussions and postcolonial critiques of whiteness. The editors conclude by summarizing not only specific claims about whiteness identity, but about how multimethodological approaches to communication offer new ways of considering research.