How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White 25
6. ‘‘The Souls of White Folks’’ 43
7. The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness 72
8. White Racial Projects 97
9. The ‘‘Morphing’’ Properties of Whiteness 113
10. ‘‘White Devils’’ Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit 138
11. Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets 167
12. Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination 184
13. The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ‘‘Vital Center’’ 214
14. How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays 234
15. (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations 266
16. Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ‘‘Whiteness’’ for Activism and the Academy 294
17. Bibliography 311
18. Contributors 333
19. Index 337