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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Germany, these essays form a transnational dialogue that strongly argues that whiteness needs to be rigorously examined if its hegemonic effects are to be dissolved.
