Hypatia articles from March 2007

Hypatia archives from March 2007

The legacy of white supremacy and the challenge of white antiracist mothering.
March 22, 2007... Aanerud's project is to develop an account of white antiracist mothering, using a model of maternal duty to raise antiracist white children. The author sets this project in the context of historic constructions of white mothering in the...

We are what we eat: feminist vegetarianism and the reproduction of racial identity.
March 22, 2007... In this article, Bailey analyzes the relationship between ethical vegetarianism (or the claim that ethical vegetarianism is morally right for all people) and white racism (the claim that white solipsistic and possibly white privileged ethical...

The reproduction of whiteness: race and the regulation of the gendered body.
March 22, 2007... Historically critical reflection on whiteness in the United States has been a long-standing practice in slave folklore and in Mexican resistance to colonialism, Asian American struggles against exploitation and containment, and Native American...

The dangerous individual ('s) mother: biopower, family, and the production of race.(GENEALOGIES)
March 22, 2007... Even as feminist analyses have contributed in important ways to discussions of how gender is raced and race is gendered, there has been little in the way of comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms that are at work in the production of...

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice.(Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization)(Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice by JAEL SILLIMAN, MARLENE GERBER FRIED, LORETTA ROSS, and ELENA R. GUTIERREZ. Boston: South End Press, 2004; Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization, ed....

Motherhood and the invention of race.
March 22, 2007... This article attempts to do two things: reveal a continuity of structure in white supremacy in the U.S. between its initial invention in the seventeenth-century English colonies and the present, and advance a specific analysis of a moment in...

Reproducing the souls of white folk.(MISCEGENATION AND PURITY)
March 22, 2007... Focusing on a textbook controversy that emerged in Kanawha County, West Virginia, in 1974, Mason explores the discursive production of white ethnicity in the rhetorical, visual, and political strategies used during an organized protest against...

Blood is thicker than water: policing donor insemination and the reproduction of whiteness.
March 22, 2007... On the most general level, this essay addresses the ways race is deployed in biomedical solutions to infertility. Szkupinski Quiroga begins with general assertions about fertility technology. She then explores how fertility technology...

Ethics along the Color Line.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ethics along the Color Line. By ANNA STUBBLEFIELD. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. The growing respectability of race as a philosophical subject manifests in the increasing number of white philosophers in recent years that...

Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation In Transatlantic Modern Thought. By ALYS EVEN WEINBAUM. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004 Alys Eve Weinbaum's accomplishment in this dense scholarly study is to explore the...

Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self. By LINDA MARTIN ALCOFF New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. In Visible Identities, Linda Martin Alcoff examines and rebuts some major challenges to identity politics. She focuses on race...

The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens. By SEYLA BENHABIB. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Seyla Benhabib's work to date has been characterized both by a sophisticated understanding of the pervasive...

Private Selves, Public Identities: Reconsidering Identity Politics.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Private Selves, Public Identities: Reconsidering Identity Politics. By SUSAN J. HEKMAN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2004. What role does or should group membership play in political life? How should we conceive of...

Feeling in the dark: empathy, whiteness, and miscege-nation in Monster's Ball.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Carrillo Rowe provides an analysis of Monster's Ball as a cultural narrative of white masculinity's redemption from the atrocities of racism through an interracial love story that erases white masculinity's national history and implication in a...

Eugenics, race, and Margaret Sanger revisited: reproductive freedom for all?(MUSINGS)
March 22, 2007... In winter 2001, the International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York City sponsored an exhibit, "Perfecting Mankind: eugenics and Photography," where posted on the wall was a quotation ascribed to my grandmother, Margaret Sanger: "More...

"Beyond the pale": tainted whiteness, cognitive disability, and eugenic sterilization.
March 22, 2007... The aim of the eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was to prevent the degeneration of the white race. A central tactic of the movement was the involuntary sterilization of people labeled as...