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Book SynopsisComposed after the election of the first black U.S. president, after the post-global financial crisis, more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of xenophobic incidents across the globe, Unveiling Whiteness distills key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness.
Trade ReviewInnovative scholars from an impressive array of disciplines here probe holistically critical dimensions of the world’s interlocking system of white racial oppression. Examining countries across the globe—the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, France, Australia—they demonstrate the oppressive effects of persisting white domination in areas ranging from the extreme emotions of cyberhate, to commonplace revanchist politics retreating from hard-won human rights and multiracial democracy. -- Joe R. Feagin, author of White Racism
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Veronica Watson Deirdre Howard-Wagner Lisa Spanierman Part I: Affective Whiteness Section Introduction: Feeling White Melissa Steyn Chapter 1 The Emotions of White Racism and Antiracism Lisa B. Spanierman Nolan L. Cabrera Chapter 2 Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian Internet Adela Fofiu Chapter 3 Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis Tobias Hübinette Catrin Lundström Part II: Governing through Whiteness Section Introduction: Piercing the Veil Charles W. Mills Chapter 4 Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996–2007 Deirdre Howard-Wagner Chapter 5 The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public Policy Delores V. Mullings Chapter 6 Arizona 2010 Brandy Jensen Deirdre Howard-Wagner Chapter 7 “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Reading France’s Recognition Politics through Fanon’s Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality Vanessa Eileen Thompson Part III: Disrupting and Reimagining Whiteness Section Introduction: When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their Foundations George Yancy Chapter 8 Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and Belonging Anthea Garman Chapter 9 I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found: Exploring the White Feminist Confessional Emily R.M. Lind Chapter 10 Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies Veronica Watson Becky Thompson About the Contributors
