Re-Orienting Whiteness

Ellinghaus, K.; Carey, J.; Boucher, L.

This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-10-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230618855

DOI: 10.1057/9780230101289

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 271