REPLY: "Whiteness" as a racial category

H-AFRICA---Mel Page (AFRICA@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 07:57:17 GMT-5

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FROM: Daniel Segal, Pitzer College
<dsegal@bernard.pitzer.edu>

On the social construction of "whiteness," see

Dominguez, Virginia, *White By Definition*
Saxton, Alexander, *The Rise and Fall of The White Republic*

and with apologies for an immodest citation:

Segal, D. "'The European': Allegories of Racial Purity" in
*Anthropology Today*, vol. 7(5).