Lee Bebout is Professor of English at Arizona State University. Bebout teaches on and researches in the areas of race, social justice, and political culture. He is also the author of Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White
"Bebout draws together the insights of critical whiteness studies
and Chicana/o studies to show how whiteness has been made and
remade through the construction and policing of a material and
imagined brown/white racial border."
*Critical Inquiry*
"Bebout makesWhiteness on the Bordera compelling read by weaving
his own experiences as a white person into his analysis; his
anecdotes remind us that even in nonborder spaces like Chicago in
the 1970s, ideas about Mexicanness circulate, reverberate, and
solidify ideas about whiteness."
*ALH Online Review*
"Bebouts book forms an impressive contribution to scholarship in
this field."
*U.S. Studies Online*
"Balancing between personal reflections, an impressive grasp of
diverse cultural theory, and at times mellifluent prose, Whiteness
on the Border is essential reading for anti-racism activists and
critical race scholars. Bebout’s clear use and definition of
complicated terms and social practices makes this book accessible
to an advanced undergraduate and graduate audience; I plan on
assigning it in my US Racial Theory class in the fall."
*Journal of American Ethnic History*
"Whiteness on the Borderexplores the vexed ways in which white
identity in the U.S. has historically been forged in opposition to
a Mexican & other. Displaying mastery of the intellectual
traditions of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies,
LeeBeboutdraws deftly on complicated concepts to show that while
there is always racism, there is never only a singular homogenous
racism, but instead many differentiated and tactically deployed
racisms. Brimming with exceptional critical acumen,Whiteness on the
Borderwill be a book of significant impact and influence."
*George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes Place*
"With wit, passion, rigor,Whiteness on the Borderbreaks down the
logic of white supremacy. Innovative and dynamic, Lee Bebouts
critical study drops onto the world at a key moment. We are living
through a backlash against multiculturalism and against the civil
rights movement. Something has changed; something has turned, and
Bebouts timely study helps us to chart the depth of this bracing
cultural metastasis."
*William Anthony Nericcio,author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive
Hallucinations of “Mexicans” in America*
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