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- Title
TIDY WHITENESS: A GENEALOGY OF RACE, PURITY, AND HYGIENE.
- Authors
Berthold, Dana
- Abstract
The article presents an investigation on racial purity, physical purity, and moral purity in the U.S. It notes that in recent years, critical race theories have done much to indicate that contrived and repressive notions of racial purity have been essential to the social identity of whiteness in U.S. In the same way, feminists recognize that contrived and repressive notions of sexual purity have been essential to the social construction of femininity, particularly white femininity. It notes that both physical and moral purity ideals use a model of cleansing to uphold a sense of the good which depends upon exclusion. It also cites that purity ideals do not just make people sick physically but morally as well, since those ideals reactivate the hierarchical subtexts of the American culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PURITY (Ethics); RACE relations; RACIAL identity of white people; CHASTITY; FEMININITY; NATIONAL socialism &; genealogy; GROUP identity; ETHICS
- Publication
Ethics & the Environment, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1085-6633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/ETE.2010.15.1.1