"Whiteness invented" in Power and Everyday Practices, 147-169
This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By "unpacking the centre" students are encouraged to turn their social worlds inside out and explore alternatives to the dominant social order.
Melanie Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts on Blackness and Black Diasporic Education at Ryerson University. Her areas of research include Black organizing and activism, Black women business ownership, and Black economic initiatives.
Other publications from this author include:
- "The demise of a Black organization: The Home Service Association (1921-1965)" in Canadian Journal of History 55 (1-2), 1-34. (2020)
- Mothering and Entrepreneurship: Global Perspectivism Identities and Complexities (2020)
- "Black Women's Small Businesses as Historical Spaces of Resistance" in Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach, 203-222 (2019)
- "Race-ing, classing and gendering racialized women's participation in entrepreneurship" in Gender, Work and Organization, 23 (3), 310-327 (2016)