Introduction - Thomas K Nakayama and Judith N Martin Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies - Parker C Johnson PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS Whiteness and Beyond - Philip C Wander, Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans - Judith N Martin et al White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as Apologia - Debian Marty Wendell Berry′s The Hidden Wound We Celebrate 100 years - Christina W Stage An `Indigenous′ Analysis of the Metaphors that Shape the Cultural Identity of Small Town, USA PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTSTRUCTURALIST VIEWS ON WHITENESS Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric - Thomas K Nakayama and Robert L Krizek Whiteness and the Politics of Location - Raka Shome Postcolonial Reflections White Difference - K E Supriya Cultural Constructions of White Identity Strategic Whiteness as Cinematic Racial Politics - Sarah Projansky and Kent A Ono PART THREE: WHITENESS IN U.S. CONTEXTS White Enculturation and Bourgeois Ideology - Dreama Moon The Discursive Production of `Good (White) Girls′ The Dynamic Construction of White Ethnicity in the Context of Transnational Cultural Formations - Jolanta A Drzewiecka and Kathleen Wong (Lau) In the Shadow of Whiteness - Kevin DeLuca The Consequences of Constructions of Nature in Environmental Politics PART FOUR: WHITENESS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS Provincializing Whiteness - Priya Kapoor Deconstructing Discourse(s) on International Progress White Identity in Context - Melissa Steyn A Personal Narrative One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses - Wen shu Lee From Border-Crossing to a Womanist Interrogation of Gendered Colorism