The Intersections of Whiteness (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036758199X ISBN 13: 9780367581992

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036758199X
• ISBN 13: 9780367581992
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Kindinger Evangelia, Schmitt Mark