The intersections of whiteness / [edited by] Evangelia Kindinger and Mark Schmitt.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Kindinger, Evangelia (Editor), Schmitt, Mark (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2019.
Edition:1 Edition.
Series:Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 PlatformNotes; 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.
  • 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.