Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School
Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School
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白色阴影：高中的白人孩子和种族身份
DOI：
10.1215/9780822383659
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发表时间：
2002
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Pamela L. Perry
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作者：
Pamela L. Perry
在21世纪的黎明，身为年轻、美国人和白人意味着什么？通过探索这个问题并揭示高中生定义白人身份的日常社交过程，帕梅拉·佩里对年轻人中种族和白人的社会结构提供了亟需的见解。通过人种学研究和对两所人口结构截然不同的美国高中的学生的深入采访，佩里分享了学生们在种族和自我认同方面的坦率。这两所高中一所是郊区白人为主，另一所是城市白人，多种族和少数族裔。通过研究学生对社交生活和日常文化活动的重视(或不重视)的意义，包括他们对音乐和服装的品味，她表明，白人学生定义白人身份的方式不仅在两所学校之间明显不同，而且在他们内部也相当不同和模棱两可。这项研究挑战了白人和白人种族主义的简化主义概念，提出了我们如何在反种族主义运动和学校改革中走出“超越白人”的新方向。《Shades of White》是新兴的第二波白人研究浪潮的象征，该研究聚焦于白人的种族认同。它将吸引人类学、社会学和文化研究的学者和学生，以及那些参与高中教育和反种族主义活动的人。
What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, Pamela Perry offers much-needed insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of students in two demographically distinct U.S. high schools-one suburban and predominantly white; the other urban, multiracial, and minority white-Perry shares students' candour about race and self-identification. By examining the meanings students attached (or didn't attach) to their social lives and everyday cultural practices, including their taste in music and clothes, she shows that the ways white students defined white identity were not only markedly different between the two schools but were considerably diverse and ambiguous within them as well. Challenging reductionist notions of whiteness and white racism, this study suggests how we might go "beyond whiteness" to new directions in antiracist activism and school reform. Shades of White is emblematic of an emerging second wave of whiteness studies that focuses on the racial identity of whites. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as to those involved with high school education and antiracist activities.