"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"
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.
