Too Black to Be Here? : Exploring Racism in Norway Through Four Critical Case Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.

Summary:

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that draws from critical race theory, whiteness studies, post-structural, and postcolonial theories, Paul Thomas offers both a scholarly and personal narrative.

Contents:

Cover

Too Black to Be Here?

Too Black to Be Here? Exploring Racism in Norway through Four Critical Case Studies

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Author

Introduction

1. Black Skin, Targeted Hate: The Benjamin Hermansen Case

1 The Paradox of Black Visibility

2 White Privilege, Working-Class Unity: A Fatal Dilemma

3 White Interpreters of Black Pain: Marit Hermansen's Observations

4 Skin Color Obsessions: Gjems-Onstad and Benjamin Hermansen

5 Whose Statue Must Fall? Defacing Benjamin's Memorial

2. Anders Breivik and the Crusade for "White Emancipation"

1 White Supremacy's Existential Anxiety: The Ascendancy of the "Other"

2 "Invisible Knapsack": White Privilege's Deadly Legacy

3 Breivik's Islamophobia: Whiteness Reimagined

4 Religion's Role in White Supremacy

3. Sumaya Jirde Ali: Too Bold, Too Black for White Spaces

1 Whiteness and Complicity: Analyzing the Silence at the Bar

2 The Silent Struggle: Fear of Racism in Everyday Interactions

3 Structural Racism and the "Original Sin"

4 Nice Racism: The Liberal Conundrum

4. Adoption Imperialism: The Johanne Ihle-Hansen Case

1 Muffled Voices: Silenced Norwegian Adoptees

2 Adopted Identities: Bunad's Role in Norwegian Diversity

3 Stealing Identity: White Adoption's Toll

Conclusion

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83662-162-0

1-83662-164-7

OCLC:

1531322660