1st Edition

Whiteness and Nationalism

Edited By Nasar Meer Copyright 2021
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Naming whiteness is becoming an increasingly pressing issue across a variety of social and political contexts. In this book, an international set of authors discuss how and why this has come to be the case. Studying whiteness, as either a social identity or political ideology, is a relatively recent area of scholarship. Unusually, within the fields of race and ethnicity, it is a concept that... Read more

Introduction: The wreckage of white supremacy, Nasar Meer

Chapter 1: Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States, Aurelien Mondon & Aaron Winter

Chapter 2: Denmark’s blond vision and the fractal logics of a nation in danger, Peter Hervik

Chapter 3: Are French people white?: Towards an understanding of whiteness in Republican France, Jean Beaman

Chapter 4: The whiteness of cultural boundaries in France, Angéline Escafré-Dublet

Chapter 5: Reimagining racism: understanding the whiteness and nationhood strategies of British-born South Africans, Pauline Leonard

Chapter 6: Securing whiteness?: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the securitization of Muslims in education, Damian Breen & Nasar Meer

Chapter 7: Looking as white: anti-racism apps, appearance and racialized embodiment, Alana Lentin

 

Biography

Nasar Meer is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow and Principal Investigator of the H2020-funded project Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER). He is a recipient of the Thomas Reid Medal for Excellence in the Social Sciences and former Minda de Gunzberg Fellow at Harvard University, USA.