Cover Image

White /

Show other versions (1)

White people are not literally or symbolically white, yet they are called white. What does this mean? In Western media, whites take up the position of ordinariness, not a particular race, just the human race. How is this achieved? White takes these questions as starting points for an examination of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dyer, Richard, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Whites in popular culture.
Blancs dans la culture populaire.
Massamedia.
Blanken.
Representatie (algemeen)
Kunst.
Ästhetik.
Weiss <Motiv>.
Caucasian race.
Mass media and culture.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Online Access:Publisher description
White
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The matter of whiteness
  • 2. Coloured white, not coloured
  • 3. The light of the world
  • 4. The white man's muscles
  • 5. 'There's nothing I can do! Nothing!'
  • 6. White death.