1st Edition

The Intersections of Whiteness

Edited By Evangelia Kindinger, Mark Schmitt Copyright 2019
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "travel ban"; Brexit and the yearning for Britain’s past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel’s refugee policies in Germany. These seemingly national responses to the changing demographics in a multitude of Western nations need to be understood as effects of a global/transnational crisis of whiteness.



    The Intersections of Whiteness brings together scholars from different disciplines to shed light on these manifestations in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Germany. Applying methodology stemming from critical race theory’s investment in intersectionality, the contributions of this edited collection focus on specific intersections of whiteness with gender, class, space, affect and nationality.



    Offering valuable insights into the contours of whiteness and its instrumentalisation across different nations, societies and cultures, this incisive volume creates transnational dialogue and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as critical whiteness and race studies, gender studies, cultural studies and social policy.

    Foreword



    Cynthia Levine-Rasky




    Introduction



    Evangelia Kindinger and Mark Schmitt




    Part I: White Epistemologies




    Chapter 1



    For the Common Good: Re-inscribing White Normalcy into the American Body Politic



    Tonnia L. Anderson





    Chapter 2



    A Typology of White People in America



    Matt Wray





    Chapter 3



    "I Wouldn’t Say I’m a Feminist": Whiteness, "Post-Feminism," and the American Cultural Imaginary Melissa R. Sande





    Part II: Whiteness and Global Politics




    Chapter 4



    A Journey through Europe’s Heart of Whiteness



    Vron Ware




    Chapter 5



    Liquid Racism, Possessive Investments in Whiteness and Academic Freedom at a Post-Apartheid University



    Adam Haupt





    Chapter 6



    White Supremacy in the Trump Era: University Students and Alt-Right Activism on College Campuses



    Adam Burston and France Winddance Twine




    Part III: White Affects




    Chapter 7



    "Anyone Foreign?": Whiteness, Passing, and Deportability in Brexit Britain



    Ariane de Waal




    Chapter 8



    ‘Afrikaner Women’ and Strategies of Whiteness in Postapartheid South Africa: Shame and the Ethnicised Respectability of Ordentlikheid



    Christi van der Westhuizen





    Part IV: White(ning) Spaces





    Chapter 9



    Exploring White German Masculinity in Wilhelmine Adventure Novels



    Maureen O. Gallagher




    Chapter 10



    Home-Making Practices and White Ideals in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus



    Sarah Heinz





    Chapter 11



    50 Shades of White: Benidorm and the Joys of All-Inclusiveness



    Anette Pankratz





     

    Biography

    Evangelia Kindinger is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.





    Mark Schmitt is Assistant Professor of British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University, Germany.