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The Invention of the White Race. Volume 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control.

Dale T. Knobel, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1996 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 1, pp 150
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1996-02-01. It has received 149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oppression.

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Rethinking racism: toward a structural interpretation *

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems is proposed, which is based on Fanon's notion of racism as a mental quirk.
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The future of whiteness: a map of the ‘third wave’

TL;DR: The authors surveys the interdisciplinary field of whiteness studies and outlines an emerging "third wave" of research in this international and inter-disciplinary field and identifies three characteristics that distinguish this 'third wave' of research from earlier studies.
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White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic White Youth and the Construction of “Cultureless” Identities

TL;DR: This article examined the processes by which white identities are constructed as "cultureless" among white youth in two high schools: one predominantly white, the other multiracial, and found that in the majority white school, processes of naturalization, the embedding of historically constituted practices in what feels "normal" and natural, produced feelings of cultural lack among white students.
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When Whites Flock Together: The Social Psychology of White Habitus

TL;DR: The authors found that whites' residential and social hypersegregation of whites from blacks furthers a socialization process referred to as white habitus, which limits whites' chances of developing meaningful relationships with blacks and other minorities.
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The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use evolutionary game theory to model the relationship between racial identity formation and inter-racial disparities in economic and non-economic outcomes, and show that the formation of identity norms imposes both positive and negative externalities on each person's identity actions.