{"id":3198,"date":"2009-11-15T22:38:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2009-11-28T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T23:34:25","slug":"the-gap-between-whites-and-whiteness-interracial-intimacy-and-racial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race<br \/>\nSeptember 2006<br \/>\nVolume 3, Issue 2<br \/>\npages 341-363<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1017\/S1742058X06060231<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/twine.htm\" target=\"_blank\">France Winddance Twine<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/academics\/facshow.cfm?Sociology\" target=\"_blank\">Amy C. Steinbugler<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Dickinson University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do White members of Black-White interracial families negotiate the meanings of race, and particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">Whiteness<\/a>?<\/strong> Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Dubois\" target=\"_blank\">W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>&#8216;s concept of double consciousness, this article argues that interracial intimacy is a microlevel political site where White people can acquire a critical analytical lens that we conceptualize as racial literacy. This article fills a gap in the empirical and theoretical literature on race and Whiteness by including gay, lesbian, and heterosexual families on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on two ethnographic research projects involving one hundred and twenty-one interracial families in the United Kingdom and the eastern United States, we provide an analysis of how White people learn to translate racial codes, decipher racial structures, and manage the racial climate in their communities. We draw on \u201cracial consciousness\u201d interviews conducted with one hundred and one heterosexual families and twenty gay and lesbian families to present seven portraits that illuminate three dimensions of racial literacy: double consciousness, negotiation of local racial meanings, and seeing routine forms of everyday racism.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayFulltext?type=1&amp;fid=1018448&amp;jid=&amp;volumeId=&amp;issueId=02&amp;aid=1018444&amp;bodyId=&amp;membershipNumber=&amp;societyETOCSession=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017\/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,394,10,20],"tags":[1185,1376,1187,1184,122,1186],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-amy-c-steinbugler","tag-amy-steinbugler","tag-du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race","tag-france-winddance-twine","tag-w-e-b-du-bois","tag-whiteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}