Full Description
This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality.
Situating the critical study of whiteness as a core intellectual pillar in a broadly based project for racial and social justice, the volume understands whiteness as elaborated in global coloniality through epistemology, ideology and governmentality at the intersections with heteropatriarchy and capitalism. The diverse contributions present Black and other racially diverse scholarship as crucial to the field. The focus of inquiry is expanded beyond Northern Anglophone contexts to challenge centre/margin relations, examining whiteness in the Caribbean, South Africa and the African continent, Asia, the Middle East as well as in the United States and parts of Europe. Providing a transdisciplinary approach and addressing debates about knowledges, black and white subjectivities and newly defensive forms of whiteness, as seen in the rise of the Radical Right, the handbook deepens our understanding of power, place, and culture in coloniality.
This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, advanced students, and scholars in the fields of Education, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Sciences, Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Feminist and Gender Studies, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Security Studies, Migration Studies, Media Studies, Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Diversity Studies, and African, Latin American, Asian, American, British and European Studies.
Contents
1. Viral Whiteness: 21st Century Global Colonialities
Part I Onto-Epistemologies: Theory Against Whiteness
Part I Introduction
2. Emerging Whiteness in Early-Modern India: A Nietzschean Reading of Jan Huygen van Linschoten
3. Whiteness, Christianity and Anti-Muslim Racism
4. Affects in Making White Womanhood
5. What Do Cultural Figurations Know About Global Whiteness?
Part II Conspiracies: Ideologies Reinforcing Whiteness
Part II Introduction
6. Trans/Nationalist Convergences: Hindu Nationalism, Trump's America and the Many Shades of Whiteness
7. #TradCulture: Reproducing Whiteness and Neo-Fascism Through Gendered Discourse Online
8. Hating Meghan Markle: Drawing the Boundaries of British Whiteness Against Postfeminist Femininity
9. Colour-Blind Ideologies: The Whiteness of Liberalism and Socialism
10. Zionism as a Movement of Whiteness: Race and Colour in the Zionist Project
Part III Colonialities: Permutations of Whiteness Over Time
Part III Introduction
11. How (Not) to Become White
12. 'Good Sweden': Transracial Adoption and the Construction of Swedish Whiteness and White Antiracism
13. Japan's Modernisation and Self Construction Between White and Yellow
14. The Evolution of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Any White Will Do?
Part IV Intersectionalities: Differences (De)stabilising Whiteness
Part IV Introduction
15. 'Africa is Not for Sissies': The Race for Dominance Between White Masculinities in South Africa
16. White Femininity, Black Masculinity and Imperial Sex/Romance Tourism: Resisting 'Whitestream' Feminism's Single Story
17. Paradoxes of Racism: Whiteness in Gay Pages Magazine
18. Between the 'Left Behind' and 'The People': Racism, Populism and the Construction of the 'White Working Class' in the Context of Brexit
Part V Governmentalities: Formations, Reproductions and Refusals of Whiteness
Part V Introduction
19. Assisted Reproduction and Assisted Whiteness
20. British Indian Seafarers, Bordering and Belonging
21. Making Yourself at Home: Performances of Whiteness in Cultural Production about Home and Homemaking Practices
22. Bleeding Through the Band-Aid: The White Saviour Industrial Complex
23. An Ecological Exploration of Whiteness: Using Imperial Hegemony and Racial Socialisation to Examine Lived Experiences and Social Performativity of Melanated Communities
Part VI Provocations: Debates and Dilemmas
Part VI Introduction
24. Curtailing Imagination: Modern African Philosophy's Struggle Against Whiteness
25. 'The Feeling in My Chest': Unblocking Space for People of Colour in Critical Whiteness Studies
26. Integrity, Self-Respect, and White Privilege
27. Whiteness as Resistance: The Intersectionality of the 'Alt-Right'
28. An Evolutionary Terror: A Critical Examination of Emboldened Whiteness and Race Evasion
Epilogue: Reflections
