"In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending nearly seventy years of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated outside Kenya for what they hoped would be better prospects, many stayed. Over the past decade, however, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled
Unsettling Whiteness
โ Scribed by Lucy Michael; Samantha Schulz
- Publisher
- Inter-Disciplinary Press/BRILL
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 293
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Unsettling Whiteness brings together an international collection that considers anew the politics, practices and representations of whiteness at a time when nations worldwide continue to grapple with issues that are underwritten by whiteness.
โฆ Table of Contents
Unsettling Whiteness
Table of Contents
Introduction Unsettling Whiteness: Disruptions and (Re)Locations
Part 1 Unsettling Histories
The Whitened Face as a Visual Gap: Thoughts and Methods
The Appropriation of the Scottish โOtherโ as a Race within White Culture in Anthropology
Images of White Womanhood in Contemporary Narratives of Middle Eastern Captivity
The White Women Abroad: Complicity or Resistance
Whiteness and Postcolonial Luxury: Representations of the White Female Body in Contemporary Tourism Visual Texts
Brett Baileyโs Traveling Human Zoo: Fragmentations of Whiteness across Borders
Part 2 Representing Hegemonies
Maiden of Finland in Finnish Cosmetics TV Adverts: Performing Racially White Finnish Female
History Written with Whiteness: The Colour of Steven Spielbergโs Lincoln
After Whiteness: Exposing the Old and Envisioning the New Multicultural Normal
TechnoRiot: Whiteness, Capital and the Violence of Belonging
Immigration, Identity and Islam in the Netherlands: White Privilege and the Construction of Dutch Identity
The White Indinโ: Native American Appropriations in Hipster Fashion
Part 3 Working out of Whiteness
Whiteness in a German Classroom
Narratives from White Mothers of Biracial Sons and Daughters
White Capital: Whiteness Meets Bourdieu
Images of a Good White Teacher
White Christians Crossing Borders: Between Perpetuation and Transformation
A Tanzanian Maasai View of Whiteness: A Complex Relationship between Half-Brothers
Part 4 Creatively Rewriting Whiteness
Composing towards/Against Whiteness: The African Music of Mohapeloa
Post-Colonial Experiments: The Appropriation of โWhite Rolesโ in African Film
Revealing Whiteness/Displaying Violence: South African Photography by David Goldblatt and Hentie van der Merwe
From the Centre to the Margin: Changing Images of Whiteness in the Nigerian Novel
Who Says White Men Canโt Dance? Deconstructing Racial Stereotypes in Windowlicker
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