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Whiteness: an introduction

open access: yes, 2007
What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives
Garner, S J, Garner, Steve
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Nazi Punks Folk Off: Leisure, Nationalism, Cultural Identity and the Consumption of Metal and Folk Music [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Far-right activists have attempted to infiltrate and use popular music scenes to propagate their racialised ideologies. This paper explores attempts by the far right to co-opt two particular music scenes: black metal and English folk.
Spracklen, K
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whiteness as Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention with Joyce Carol Oates’s Bellefleur and Cheryl Harris’s “Whiteness as Property”

open access: yesBearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies, 2015
This article begins with the assertion that now more than ever, in the aftermath of Ferguson and in a time when many believe our society to be post-racial, we need to bring together scholars and activists who care about racial justice, regardless of ...
Karen Gaffney
doaj   +1 more source

Review of "Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania" by Maile Arvin (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2020
Arvin explains how dispossessing Polynesians was predicated on a logic of settler colonialism inflected by white supremacy. Casting Polynesians as white—specifically, as “almost white”—as opposed to distancing Polynesians from Caucasians, simultaneously ...
Christine Rosenfeld
doaj   +1 more source

Critical whiteness studies and the challenges of learning to be a "White Ally"

open access: yes, 2004
In working with teacher education students (most of whom are white) to develop an explicitly ant-racist consciousness, it is one of my aims as a white teacher educator to examine how the boundaries of ethnicity, race and power make visible how whiteness ...
Aveling, N.
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Structural instability impairs function of the UDP‐xylose synthase 1 Ile181Asn variant associated with short‐stature genetic syndrome in humans

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Framework for Understanding Whiteness in Mathematics Education

open access: yesJournal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2016
In this article, the authors provide a framework for understanding whiteness in mathematics education. While whiteness is receiving more attention in the broader education literature, only a handful of scholars address whiteness in mathematics education ...
Dan Battey, Luis A. Leyva
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Whiteness as a Fractured Construction: Race, Class, and the Internal Frontiers of White Identity in the United States

open access: yesCultural Intertexts
This article examines the evolving constructions of whiteness in the United States by bringing together two often-separated strands of critical inquiry: whiteness studies proper (with its emphasis on white racial identity and systemic privilege) and the ...
Florian Andrei VLAD
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Pinned Like a Butterfly: Whiteness and Racial Hatred Laws

open access: yes, 2008
This article explores ideas of whiteness and racial harm by focusing on an area of law in which these themes are pivotal: the regulation of racial hatred.
O'Connell, K
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