Whiteness and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780367895419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 136 str.

Nasar Meer

Opis

Whiteness is becoming an increasingly important 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.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

Spis treści

Introduction: The wreckage of white supremacy  1. Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States  2. Denmark’s blond vision and the fractal logics of a nation in danger  3.Are French people white?: Towards an understanding of whiteness in Republican France  4.The whiteness of cultural boundaries in France  5. Reimagining racism: understanding the whiteness and nationhood strategies of British-born South Africans  6. Securing whiteness?: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the securitization of Muslims in education  7. Looking as white: anti-racism apps, appearance and racialized embodiment

O autorze

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.