1st Edition

The Intersections of Whiteness

Edited By Evangelia Kindinger, Mark Schmitt Copyright 2019
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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





 

Biography

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.