Author: Sartwell, Crispin (Visiting Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, Capital College, USA)
Hardback; Book
264 pages
Published: June 1998
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226735265

Taking as his starting point African-American autobiography, Crispin Sartwell argues that there is a fundamental elusiveness to white identity. This theory is based on the concept that whiteness defines itself as normative, marking other identity as racial or ethnic deviations.