Introduction : Vipers in Shangri-la : whiteness, writing, and other ordinary terrors / Mike Hill -- Sympathy for the devils : notes on some white guys in the ridiculous class war / Fred Pfeil -- White looks : hairy apes, true stories, and Limbaugh's laughs / David R. Roediger -- The whitest I : on reading the Hill-Thomas transcripts / Michael E. Staub -- Bulletproof settlers : the politics of offense in the New South Africa / Grant Farred -- The whiteness of film noir / Eric Lott -- Basketball, Rodney King, Simi Valley / Matthew P. Brown -- The possum, the hag, and the rhinestone cowboy : hard country music and the burlesque abjection of the white man / Barbara Ching -- "Story untold" : the black men and white sounds of doo-wop / Jeffrey Melnick -- One of the boys? Whiteness, gender, and popular music studies / Gayle Wald -- What is "white trash"? Stereotypes and economic conditions of poor whites in the United States / Annalee Newitz and Matthew Wray -- The unexamined / Ross Chambers -- Outing whiteness : a feminist/lesbian project / Kate Davy -- If Uncle Tom is white, should we call him "Auntie"? Race and sexuality in postbellum U.S. fiction / Warren Hedges -- Performing men of color : male autoperformance, highways performance space, the NEA, and the white right / Robert H. Vorlicky -- Conditions of immigration / Amitava Kumar -- The universalization of whiteness : racism and enlightenment / Warren Montag -- Racial politics and the pedagogy of whiteness / Henry A. Giroux -- The "look" returned : knowledge production and constructions of "whiteness" in humanities scholarship and independent film / E. Ann Kaplan -- Literature in the country of "whiteness" : from T.S. Eliot to the Tempest / Jerry Phillips -- Toward a new abolitionism : a Race traitor manifesto / John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev.