Off white Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, James Mark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Catherine, editor.

Iacob, Bogdan, editor.

Imre, Anikó, editor.

Mark, James, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Central and Eastern Europe has long been seen in the West as an 'off white' European periphery. Yet its nationalist movements have worked towards a full belonging in a white Europe, or have claimed themselves to be superior defenders of the white West. This volume demonstrates the centrality of white supremacy for over two centuries in the region's nation-building, social hierarchies, ethnic homogenisation, and global interconnections. Such insight applies not only to the newly established states of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century founded at the heights of global colonialism, but also to the region's Communist polities, which publicly professed their rejection of such racial politics. More broadly, we analyse the role that white peripheries play in the maintenance of a global racial order - including the question of why the region inspires contemporary radical nationalism around the world. The collection comprises studies of national self-determination, geographic exploration, migration, and diplomacy; of cultural representation in literature, film, the media industries, exhibitions, art, dress, and music; of intellectual and academic discourses; as well as explorations of the many forms of banal nationalism, including everyday artefacts and language. The volume underlines the potential for resistance in the region too by theorising its marginality and identifying solidarities with racialised minorities and the Global South. Central and Eastern Europe has long been removed from global histories of race. This is an original alternative history that explores and challenges long-held claims about the region's racial innocence.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on the cover image

Introduction / James Mark, Anikó Imre, Bogdan C. Iacob, Catherine Baker

1 Wilson's white world / James Mark

2 The 'racial contract', 'whiteness contract', and Central Europe / Bolaji Balogun

3 Not quite white / Maciej Górny

4 Racial thinking among Czech anthropologists / Victoria Shmidt

5 'Hungarian Indians' / Zoltán Ginelli

6 Peripheral whiteness and racial belonging and non-belonging / Chelsi West Ohueri

7 The aesthetics of alternation and the returns of race / Sudeep Dasgupta

8 Retailored for a Soviet spectator / Irina Novikova

9 'With the help of the great Russian people' / Yulia Gradskova

10 The whiteness of 'Christian Europe' / Paul Hanebrink

11 Alien at home, white overseas / Marta Grzechnik

12 Midsommar and the production of white fantasy / Anikó Imre

13 In pursuit of Western modernity / Daria Krivonos

14 The 'perpetual foreigner' in Serbia / Sunnie Rucker-Chang

15 Re-routing Eastern European whiteness / Špela Drnovšek Zorko

16 Through the Balkans to Christchurch / Catherine Baker

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526172211

1526172216

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access