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Eastern Illinois University The Keep Faculty Research & Creative Activity English November 2006 Toward a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies Tim Engles Eastern Illinois University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eng_fac Part of the Race and Ethnicity Commons Recommended Citation Engles, Tim, "Toward a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies" (2006). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 51. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eng_fac/51 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Research & Creative Activity by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Towards a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies About this publication Table of Contents This bibliography was produced by the Critical Whiteness Introduction ..................................................................................................................4 Studies Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with the university’s Center on Democracy in a Introductory Whiteness Studies ..............................................................................7 Multiracial Society. The book was printed by the university’s Tim Engles and Carmen P. Thompson Offi ce of Printing Services. Philosophy and Whiteness ........................................................................................9 Alison Bailey On the Web Histories of Whiteness ..............................................................................................20 The fi eld of critical whiteness studies is always in fl ux. To keep up Carmen P. Thompson with changes in the fi eld, the Critical Whiteness Studies Group will occasionally update the bibliography as it appears on a Web page Literature, Cinema and the Visual Arts ...............................................................27 maintained by the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. Tim Engles A PDF copy of this bibliography also will be available for I. Studies of Literary Whiteness .............................................................................29 downloading on the Web site at: II. Literary Studies of Whiteness ............................................................................48 III. Cinema ....................................................................................................................50 http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/Research_CDMS/CriticalWhiteness/Index.htm IV. The Visual Arts ......................................................................................................60 Psychology ....................................................................................................................65 Additional copies Lisa B. Spanierman, Nathan R. Todd and Helen A. Neville I. White Racism ...........................................................................................................67 Additional copies of this book are available upon request from the II. White Racial Identity Models .............................................................................73 Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. The center will charge II. White Privilege and Costs ...................................................................................81 a $10 shipping and handling fee for all copies mailed off campus. To IV. White Anti-Racism ...............................................................................................85 request a copy, contact the center at the mailing or e-mail address V. Whiteness and Therapy (and Other Applications) .......................................87 on the back cover of this publication. Whiteness Theory in Education ............................................................................91 A brief note on styles Audrey Thompson As this is an interdisciplinary bibliography, you may notice several Personal Narratives of Whiteness ........................................................................105 different citation styles. With the exception of the International/ Audrey Thompson Comparative section (where several different disciplinary styles International/Comparative ....................................................................................116 have been made uniform within that section), any other discipline- Melanie E.L. Bush specifi c styles of citation have been left intact. I. International/Comparative ................................................................................117 II. Australia and New Zealand ..............................................................................119 Credits III South Africa .........................................................................................................125 This bibliography was edited by Tim Engles with support from IV. Europe ................................................................................................................... 127 V. Canada .................................................................................................................... 130 Carmen P. Thompson, Perzavia Praylow and Karen Rodríguez. The VI. Asia .........................................................................................................................131 book was designed and typeset by Kevin Dolan with proofreading VII. Mexico, Latin America, South America and the Caribbean ............... 132 by Tim Engles, Carmen P. Thompson and Kevin Dolan. Media Studies ........................................................................................................... 133 Kevin Dolan Qualitative Inquiry in Critical Whiteness Studies ........................................ 137 Published in November 2006 Kevin Dolan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Notes on Contributors ............................................................................................142 2 CRITICAL WHITENESS STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICAL WHITENESS STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 At a time when some initiatives for the study of whiteness begin Introduction as a conversation solely and deliberately among whites only, CWS David R. Roediger has been interracial from its inception and has centrally involved faculty and students from the university’s ethnic studies programs. While it is the product of its editor and of the compilers of the The infl uence of both history and ethnic studies has put CWS in bibliographies under its various disciplinary and topical headings, an especially strong position regarding understanding that the this publication is also the result of a remarkable ongoing and critical study of whiteness is not, as it is too often portrayed in the informal collaboration among a larger group of scholars and press, a recent and university-based project undertaken mainly by activists at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over the white scholars. CWS discussions have instead consistently refl ected past six years, a rotating core of perhaps fi fteen participants has the long roots of inquiries into when, how and why some people met monthly as the Critical Whiteness Studies Group (CWS) with a have, over the last centuries of human history, suddenly come to periphery of about four times that size attending sessions according value what W.E.B. Du Bois long ago called “personal whiteness.” to their interests, and hundreds more attending the larger lectures Not surprisingly, this knowledge developed most quickly and and conferences initiated by the group and its members. systematically among racialized, enslaved, conquered and colonized CWS has carried fl exibility and inter-disciplinarity to productive peoples for whom white power and white pretense were urgent extremes. Leaderless, but built through the hard work and problems. Both this long sweep of the study of whiteness and intellectual energy of such participants as Tim Engles, Suk Ja the key role of people of color in undertaking such study are Kang Engles, Kevin Dolan, Lisa Spanierman, Dianne Harris, and represented in the bibliography published here. Sharon Irish, the group has sometimes functioned as a writing Participants within CWS also have made attempts to bridge workshop, brainstorming on works-in-progress by both faculty lines between disciplines and between the university and and graduate students. It has at other moments read provocative community. When an experimental fi lm is screened at a CWS works from writers not at the University of Illinois or weighed event, quantifi cation-oriented psychologists are as likely as fi lm the impacts, stated or implicit, of what James Baldwin called the scholars to be the fi rst to respond to it. U.S. history, British studies, “lie of whiteness” on popular fi lm. Its activities, and the spin- communications research, art, Asian American studies, literature, offs from them, have produced art exhibitions, cross-disciplinary law, education, art history, African American studies, cinema collaborations, university courses, discussions of race and pedagogy, studies, anthropology, geography, sociology, urban planning, interfaith conversations on racism, support for the immigrant theology and landscape architecture have all fi gured prominently workers’ freedom ride and for the movement against the anti- in the group’s programming. Indian mascot of the University of Illinois, a major conference on Within the community, CWS has drawn participation from race and space, collective wisdom animating the revision of dozens those working