The Intersections of Whiteness

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The future of Critical Whiteness Studies
Hegemonic whiteness – privilege, entitlement or advantage?
The “buzzword” intersectionality
The book
Notes
Bibliography
PART I: White epistemologies
1. For the common good: Re-inscribing white normalcy into the American body politic
Introduction
Southern Civil Religion and the Original Nation
After Brown: White alienation and polarization
The new Herrenvolk democracy: Trump’s America and the 2016 GOP
Platform
Notes
Bibliography
2. A typology of white people in America
Variations in white privilege and colour-blindness
Constructing a white typology
Some surprising features of the typology
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
3. “I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist”: Whiteness, “post-feminism,” and the American cultural imaginary
Feminism: A troubled past
Whiteness as rhetorical device
The cultural imaginary and colonizing discourses
Gender as colonized by whiteness: The example of the 2016 election
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
PART II: Whiteness and global politics
4. A journey through Europe’s heart of whiteness
Introduction
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Notes
Bibliography
5. Liquid racism, possessive investments in whiteness and academic freedom at a post-apartheid university
Notes
Bibliography
6. White supremacy in the Trump era: University students and alt-right activism on college campuses
The Ku Klux Klan: Restoring white supremacy after the Civil War
1970s–1980s: The fourth wave of the Klan and the rise of men’s groups
Conservative and right-wing movements
An intersectional analysis of right-wing movements: Race, masculinity, and immigrant status
“College Conservatives”: A site for right-wing activism
James: The use of humor by a closeted alt-right activist
Michael: The role of minorities advancing white supremacist ideologies
“Front-stage femininity” and gendered social contracts in the College
Conservatives
Sheila: A white anti-feminist female member of the College Conservatives
Chloe: A Black liaison and moderate voice for the College Conservatives
Conclusion: Digital culture and the afterlife of white supremacist movements
Notes
Bibliography
PART III: White affects
7. “Anyone foreign?”: Whiteness, passing, and deportability in Brexit Britain
Placing whiteness in(to) the Brexit debate
Infrastructural whiteness
Whiteness and deportability
How the British working class became white, again
Conclusion: The problem with white liberalism
Notes
Bibliography
8. ‘Afrikaner women’ and strategies of whiteness in postapartheid South Africa: Shame and the ethnicised respectability of ordentlikheid
Ordentlikheid, an ethnicised form of respectability
Pre-apartheid and postapartheid, shame upon shame
The transformative potential of acknowledged shame
Notes
Bibliography
PART IV: White(ning) spaces
9. Exploring white German masculinity in Wilhelmine adventure novels
Race and crisis in Wilhelmine Germany
The colonial Bildungsroman
Work and racial hierarchy in adventure novels
German colonial innocence
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
10. Homemaking practices and white ideals in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Doing whiteness: Whiteness as practice
Doing home: The politics and ideals of home practices
Ideal homes and whitely practices in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Unhomely homes and the visibility of whiteness in Purple Hibiscus
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
11. Fifty shades of white: Benidorm and the joys of all-inclusiveness
Going on a summer holiday
Variations of British whiteness
Tan and tobacco
Coats and Coolio
Pub quiz champions, photographs and parasites
Spanish others
Classifications and disqualifications
Nostalgic conviviality
The other Spain
Queer spaces
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index