In this article, i empirically examined the dispositions of teachers in juvenile justice surrounding young women of color with disabilities to inform what improvements can be made in teacher education. Mark fitzpatrick marked hraris as toread may 04, iris iris marked it as toread sep 08, harris, poem for alma in the s, some years after my mothers family became part of the great river of black migration that flowed north, my mississippiborn grandmother was confronted with the harsh. Sep 09, 2010 summary of whiteness as property by cheryl i. Whiteness the right to white identity as embraced by the law is property if by property one means all of a persons legal rights. The ideological architecture of whiteness as property in educational policy show all authors. Towards a bibliography of critical whiteness studies. Whiteness as property is an article that argues that being white in the united states makes accessible the right to own property and the benefits that come from its ownership. Slavery created a form of property that was contingent on. An essential read for anyone who wishes to understand white privilege, the systematic opp. Like property, whiteness has tangible and intangible value and comes with, as harris notes, a right to exclude harris 1714. Genomics, anthropology, and the construction of whiteness. Harris states that not only does whiteness afford a certain group of people a level of benefits but creates and defines their identity in society.
Sep 05, 1993 harris 84page article, whiteness as property, argues that the law has come to embody and legitimize benefits that accrue to citizens just because theyre white. Professor harris traces the origins of whiteness as property in the parallel. The right to disposition includes being able to pass along rights and privileges to heirs. The ideological architecture of whiteness as property in. Next, professor harris examines how the concept of whiteness as property persists in current perceptions of racial identity, in the laws misperception of group. If whites alone could construct and possess property, then whiteness itself became a valuable thing. Harris makes a powerful case for whiteness as property in relation to propertys function as a right to exclude, looking at the evolution of whiteness as a precious, selectively distributed resource, from plessy to bakke. Board of education, and what this resolution might tell us about the reconstitution of the racial state despite the extension of universal civil rights. Aug 31, 2006 professor harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in american law. Cheryl harris begins her canonical piece, whiteness as property, by in. Harris arguing for the notion of whiteness as property. In this article, cheryl harris discusses the emergence of whiteness as intellectual property, affirmed, legitimated and protected by the law. Privilege as property open scholarship washington university. Your use of this heinonline pdf indicates your acceptance.
Pdf harris whiteness as property cheryl harris academia. Like property, whiteness has tangible and intangible value and comes with, as harris notes, a right to. Essay employs cheryl harriss whiteness as property alongside. Harriss 1993 analysis of whiteness as property within u. Decentering whiteness 2015 edition decentering whiteness. Harris harris cheryl 1995 whiteness as property in k.
Cheryl harris recalls her grandmother, a mississippi sharecropper who migrated north, telling how she exploited her fair skin, straight hair and. The legal legacy of slavery and of the seizure of land from native a. Professor harris traces the origins of whiteness as property in the. For harris, the genesis of whiteness as a property in and of itself begins with the commodification of black bodies during slavery. Harris 84page article, whiteness as property, argues that the law has come to embody and legitimize benefits that accrue to citizens just because theyre white. Sep 09, 2010 in this article, cheryl harris discusses the emergence of whiteness as intellectual property, affirmed, legitimated and protected by the law. Harris posted on september 9, 2010 by petersoliman whiteness as property is an article that argues that being white in the united states makes accessible the right to own property and the benefits that come from its ownership. Relationships between slavery, race, and property 1716 z. Critical characteristics of property and whitman 1. Insofar as whiteness is thought of as natural, it is understood in essentialized terms either as a personal attribute or as a scientific category.
Yet who counts as white depends on what is at stake. Decentering whiteness 2015 edition by jeff hitchcock and charley flint f o r e w o r d this year the center for the study of white american culture cswac celebrates its 20th anniversary. In this article, i follow federal policy mandates and educational policy narratives to trace the resolution to inequality that was constructed postbrown v. Privilege revealed, harriss germinal work exposes the tangible property implications of whiteness, ones created from legal texts and embedded in legal actions. Professor harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in american law. Professor harris traces the origins of whiteness as property in the parallel systems of domination of black and native american peoples out of which. Jul 10, 2014 in this article, i empirically examined the dispositions of teachers in juvenile justice surrounding young women of color with disabilities to inform what improvements can be made in teacher education. The coupled insights of these two scholars illuminate the. The law should theoretically only defend customs and social relations. We have seen some positive changes in our country since cswacs founding in 1995, but much remains distressingly the same, or in the backlash of. Harris deepls historicay wor pushelk fas beyonr thde commonplace tha whitenest has s carried and stil carriesl greate accesr s to property in the united states sh e argue s that whiteness ha s been so tied to the right to own propert ays to itself come to constitute itsel af legally. These distinct forms of exploitation each contributed in varying to the construction of whiteness as property. In the wake of donald trumps election and bestselling books like hillbilly elegy and white trash, there is a growing realization that whiteness is as much a.
Critical race teory the key writings t at formed me movement editedby kimberlf. The ideological architecture of whiteness as property in educational policy. Whiteness as cursed property usf scholarship repository. The meaning of a racial, social and legal construct. Students and institutions protecting whiteness as property. This article investigates the relationships be tween concepts of race and property. Colonialism, contamination, and detention in tacomas puyallup estuary amory ballantine this project is a case study of carceral geographies of whiteness and settler colonialism in the united states, focused in the puyallup river estuary. Ash rated it it was amazing aug 30, you are commenting using your twitter account. It brings together critical race theorist cheryl harriss idea of.
In addition to the theoretical descriptions of property, whiteness also meets the functional criteria of property. Her research, bolstered by more recent work by ira katznelson, george lipsitz, and david freund. I utilized critical race theory crt and focused on the tenet of whiteness as property as a lens to provide a robust racial analysis of the dispositions of teachers. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Summary of whiteness as property, a paper by cheryl harris. Though intangible, harris detailed how whiteness functions in four similar ways as tangible forms of property, such as land or money. It brings together critical race theorist cheryl harriss idea of whiteness as property. Genomics, anthropology, and the construction of whiteness as. First, harriss analysis of whiteness as property elicits both. The laws interpretation of those encounters between whites and native americans not only inflicted vastly different results on them, but also established a pattern a custom of valorizing whiteness. Professor harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged. The four property functions of whiteness include the absolute right to exclude, the right to use and enjoyment, the rights of disposition, and reputation and status property harris, 1993.
Legal scholar and critical race theorist cheryl harris was one of the first scholars to spell out the power dynamic. Crt scholar cheryl harris suggests that whiteness is best thought of as a form of property. Whiteness as property many scholars have identified the tendency in american culture and law for a. The construction of race and the emergence of white as property. Whiteness as property urban america, though, anonymity was possible. A pdf copy of this bibliography also will be available for. In james madisons view, for example, property embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right, referring to all of a persons. Issues regarding race and racial identity as well as questions pertaining to property rights and ownership have. Only white possession and occupation ofland was validated and therefore privileged as a basis for property rights. Harris 1993 suggested, just as whiteness as property embraced the right to exclude, whiteness as a theoretical construct evolved for the very purpose of racial exclusion.
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