Full Description
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday language use, and in practice forbidden in official and institutional language.
A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become extremely diverse, yet where the legacy of Swedish whiteness co-exists with a radical, colourblind, antiracist ideology, Race in Sweden will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness and Nordic studies.
Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction
1. The modern history of Swedish whiteness and Swedish race relations
2. The emergence and development of the world's first colourblind nation
3. The Swedish N-issue, Swedish N's and white transracial identifications
4. Non-white adoptees and a new relationship between race and Swedishness
5. Swedish whiteness as white terror and non-white rage in antiracist Sweden
6. When colourblindness runs amok: The Swedish debate on equality data
Conclusion
