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“Whiteness invented” in Power and Everyday Practices, 147-169

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“Whiteness invented” in Power and Everyday Practices, 147-169

This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By “unpacking the centre” students are encouraged to turn their social worlds inside out and explore alternatives to the dominant social order.

About the Author

Melanie Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts on Blackness and Black Diasporic Education at Ryerson University. Her areas of research include Black organizing and activism, Black women business ownership, and Black economic initiatives.

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