Week 6
Critical Whiteness Studies
Required readings
Rankine, Claudia. “On Whiteness.” 1 Hour lecture at Emerson College, Boston. https://www.californiansforthearts.org/antiracism-edit/2020/6/11/claudia-rankine-onwhiteness
Alcoff, Linda Martin. “What Do We Mean When We Talk About Whiteness?” In The Future of Whiteness. John Wiley and Sons, 2015.
Harris, Dianne Suzette. “Rendered Whiteness: Architectural Drawings and Graphics.” In Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America, 83-109. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Further readings
Alcoff, Linda Martin. The Future of Whiteness. John Wiley and Sons, 2015. (See Introduction and Chapter on White Double Consciousness)
Cheng, Irene, Charles L Davis, and Mabel Wilson, eds. Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
Also see recent SAH roundtable https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/sah-connects/race-and-modern-architecture
Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen : An American Lyric. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2014.
Rankine, Claudia. The White Card: A Play. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2019.
Rankine, Claudia, and Lauren Berlant. “Claudia Rankine.” Bomb 129 (129): 44–49. 2014.
DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility : Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
