[-empyre-] In response to Dr. Brock

[Soraya Murray]

As I recall, there has been some significant work done on denaturalizing the category of "Whiteness"  -- for example the excellent work done by Richard Dyer entitled White: Essays on Race and Culture (1997); Whiteness: A Wayward Construction by Tyler Stallings (2003?) and Nell Irvin Painter's provocative The History of White People.  These are the ones that spring to mind immediately, though there are many more... 

-Soraya

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Soraya Murray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
Film + Digital Media Department
University of California, Santa Cruz