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Draws on focus group data (N = 89 white college students) to argue that the immigrant analogy remains a facet of white understandings of race & ethnic relations & is deployed to deflect charges of white privilege & negate claims of racism. Four categories of respondents are identified on the basis of ethnic identity salience. While ethnicity was not a salient component of social identity for the majority of respondents, respondents from each category deployed immigrants stories directly or indirectly through critiques of racial but not ethnic identity politics. Respondents tried to present ethnic & racial histories as similar for all groups. Some look to minimize the legacy of slavery & deny the persistence of social costs of being a racial minority. Regarding racial & ethnic pride, some wish to avoid an "overexcessive" ethnic identity while others remark on the double standard that allows some groups to organize around race when any such organizing for whites is construed as racist. Viewing race relations from the perspective of ethnicity allows whites to present themselves as victims & unaccountable for current & historical social circumstances that reproduce white privilege. This color-blind lens works on an ideological level to negate that white privilege on the basis of skin color & blame racial minorities for their own problems. J. Zendejas

Interviews with 75 randomly selected students & surveys of 514 students regarding white student perceptions on race at a large US university suggest that whiteness is experienced as a real social category that acts in similar ways as other racialized categories. It is shown that race matters to students because they have experienced a form of racial politics & exposure by the media that has made "whiteness" a viable social category, while simultaneously transforming it into a social disadvantage. It is noted that the conception that whites view themselves as colorless, or outside of racial categorization, is false. It is suggested that the rise in white racial consciousness stems largely from the rise of multiculturalism, political correctness movements, & the influence of racialized identity politics both in the public & academic spheres. It is noted that like all other racial categories, whiteness is capable of being created, manipulated, transformed, & politicized. It is suggested that whiteness may be taking on a political life similar to the paths that other racial identities have taken, developing its own racial essences & political ideologies molded by the Right. 23 References. D. Karjanen

"Rethinking the Color Line is a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded readings on race and race relations that illustrate how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics and economics"--

The idea of a Christian Front -- Defending the Body of Christ -- Terror in the name of Christ -- What's the matter with me? -- A rather bold agitator -- A Nazi in Boston -- Hitler's spymaster on Beacon Hill -- Rifles and rhetoric -- Kissing Hitler -- Questions of the most delicate kind -- Marvelously militant -- Underground.

Pt. 5: The Second Republic. - 14 S., Tab. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Europe; 1979/No. 22) ; (CFG-2-'79); Pt. 6: Franco Spain (1936-1975). - 17 S., Tab. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Europe; 1979/No. 24) ; (CFG-3-'79)