Performing Purity

«This book adds an important voice to current conversations within critical race studies. Using performativity as a powerful critical lens for understanding how white bodies get ‘made’, John T. Warren helps us avoid getting mired in racial essentialism, while simultaneously allowing for the careful consideration of the material effects of racial inequality. Warren carefully articulates a conceptual map for tracing the production and reproduction of whiteness through everyday performances of the ordinary, the mundane and the prosaic in the classroom. This is an important book, especially for those who struggle with the (re)constitution of the [white] ‘culture of power’ in the classroom.» (Dreama G. Moon, Associate Professor, Communication Department, California State University, San Marcos)