Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 192
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-9026-8 • Paperback • September 1999 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4616-4702-7 • eBook • September 1999 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
Chapter 1 List of Illustrations
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Part I: Constructing Race and Gender
Chapter 4 The Bounds of Whiteness
Chapter 5 Reading Race and Gender
Chapter 6 Planting the Seed: The Invention of Race
Chapter 7 Cultivating the Seed: The Organized White Supremacist Movement in the United States
Part 8 Part II: Reading White Supremacy
Chapter 9 Defining Difference
Chapter 10 It All Comes Down to Sexuality: Interracial Sexuality and the Threat to Difference
Chapter 11 Boundary Transgressions
Chapter 12 Mongrel Monstrosities
Chapter 13 Securing the Borders
Chapter 14 No Final Solution
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Appendix: Primary Sources
Chapter 17 Index
This book makes significant contributions to the literature on race. In particular, it is one of the few sociological studies that apply a postmodern perspective. Ferber challenges sociologists to rethink their approach to race and gender.
— Steven Seidman, SUNY Albany
A must for those championing social justice. . . . Abby Ferber explores the anxiety over interracial sexuality that prevails in white supremacy discourse to reveal how it is grounded in a binary vision of race and gender—and how that perspective frames a definition of white male identity. She reveals the 'logic' that is behind violence efforts to maintain gender and racial boundaries and challenges our interpretation of such views as 'fringe.'
— Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware
White Man Falling presents a highly original and unique reading of white supremacist discourse—one that illustrates the performative aspects of identity, and interrogates the meanings given to bodies and boundaries. Ferber argues that whiteness is an unstable category that must be continually defined and reiterated in white supremacist narratives. Focusing on the literature's constant obsession with interracial sexuality, she effectively demonstrates how race is gendered and gender is raced.
— Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
Penetrating, accessible commentary on recent history from a thoughtful, committed observer.
— Booklist
I appreciate her analysis, particularly her insight into the close relation between the white supremacists and the mainstream.
— Maureen T. Reddy; The Women's Review Of Books
Remarkable revelations . . . Ferber's clear focus on the intricacies of the relationship betwen sex and gender is its greatest contribution to the study of the contemporary white supremacist movement in particular and white racism in general. In addition, she provides an enlightening history and profile of the major organized white supremacist groups in the United States.
— Annette Prosterman; The Great Plains Sociologist
Written in an accessible and engaging manner . . . the writer chose material which effectively demonstrated the connections within the larger organizing mythology of the discourse . . . This book will help me to demonstrate the manner in which violence may be covertly eroticized and suggest that the most ugly forms of racism may have theit roots in sexual fear.
— Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor of Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies
An interesting example of the growing sociological interest in the Patriot Right, especially its most racist elements. A good application of textual analysis to the racist right. Ferber's argument is interesting, insightful, and well worth reading.
— Jerome L. Himmelstein; Qualitative Sociology
What is going on in the minds of white supremacists? What motivates them to do what they do? Why is this still going on in the United States at this point in history? White Man Falling provides compelling answers to these very important questions. This book contributes to a greater understanding of the content and logic of white supremacy in the Unites States. This is an extremely important and timely task.
— Gender & Society
Provides a sharp analysis of the ways that contemporary white supremacist writings work to construct the whiteness for which they advocate.
— Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society