The Intersections of Whiteness

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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