After whiteness : : unmaking an American majority / / Mike Hill.

• Superior document: Cultural front (Series)
• Author: Hill, Mike, 1964-
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural front (Series)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ""Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and the desire for difference as part of the material practices of the U.S. university system, it engages questions of race, humanistic inquiry, intellectual labor, and the democratic function of critical thought. The result is a critically nuanced analysis that promises to solidify Mike Hill's

Table of Contents

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: After Whiteness Eve; Part I: Incalculable Community: Multiracialism, U.S. Census 2000, and the Crisis of the Liberal State; Labor Formalism; Dissensus 2000; The Will to Category; Rebirth of a Nation?; America, Not Counting Class; Part II: A Fascism of Benevolence: God and Family in the Father-Shaped Void; Of Communism and Castration; Muscular Multiculturalism; When Color is the Father; A Certain Gesture of Virility; The Eros of Warfare; Part III: Race Among Ruins: Whiteness, Work, and Writing in the New University; Between Jobs and Work

The Multiversity's Diversity After Whiteness Studies; Multitude or Culturalism?; How Color Saved the Canon; Notes; Index; About the Author