Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States

"Pinder examines the seemingly never-ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups, including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans. She documents the difference between remembering a history of human indignities and re-creating one that composes its own textual memory. More specifically, Pinder reformulates how the historically reliant positionality of whiteness as a part of the everyday practice and discourse of white supremacy became institutionalized. Even though 'whiteness studies' has entered the realm of academic research with the intention of exposing white privilege and is moving toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, Pinder argues that this academic study is not equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. In order to cosntruct a post-white identity, the book concludes that whiteness has to be denormalized and freed of its presumptive hegemony"--P. [4] of cover.