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McCann, Kim. "Re/Deconstruction of Whiteness? Racial Consciousness vs. Racial Abolition" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 21, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p229858_index.html>

McCann, K. , 2008-05-21 "Re/Deconstruction of Whiteness? Racial Consciousness vs. Racial Abolition" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p229858_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Although increased scholarly attention is being paid to the concept of whiteness, the meaning of whiteness still remains unsecured in the field of whiteness. Against researchers grappling with the task of defining the concept of whiteness, a foremost assumption encompassed by recent whiteness studies manifests itself invisibility of whiteness as a naturalized operation, and nonessentialism as the fluidity of its identity. With a particular concern for the critique of the concept of whiteness, this paper mainly explores two theoretical underpinnings of race and class analysis, and their discrete positioning of the power operation in the implication of theories. Throughout the analysis, I suggest a closer interrogation of the critical links between racial and class hierarchies that are intersected together and constructed within particular social and historical contexts. I further argue that an individual�s accountability, regarding whiteness, should be attributed to one�s consciousness of his/her positionality prior to having active involvement in the radical reform of the system responding to social justice. In the end, I conclude by addressing the imminent need of reconstructing whiteness rather than deconstructing whiteness as a means of providing a positive and ethical construction of whiteness.

Critical Race Theory- Social Construction, Black Identity, and Race Relations in the U.S.

“The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity of Mixed Black-White Race Individuals: The Role of State Legislatures”