Postcolonial Whiteness : A Critical Reader on Race and Empire / edited by Alfred J. López.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López, Alfred J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages)

Other Title:

Postcolonial Whiteness

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations between whiteness and the history of European colonialism, as well as the status of whiteness in the contemporary postcolonial world. It addresses two fundamental questions: What happens to whiteness after empire, and to what extent do white cultural norms or imperatives remain embedded in the postcolonial or postindependence state as a part - acknowledged or not - of the colonial legacy?"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Whiteness after empire / Alfred J. López

The body of the princess / Diane Roberts

Lavender ain't white : emerging queer self-expression in its broader context / John C. Hawley

Whiteness in post-socialist Eastern Europe : the time of the gypsies, the end of race / Anikó Imre

Vampiric decolonization : Fanon, "terrorism," and Mudrooroo's vampire trilogy / Gerry Turcotte

"White talk" : White South Africans and the management of diasporic whiteness / Melissa Steyn

The color of schizophrenia / Cheryl Temple Herr

The gaze of the white wolf : psychoanalysis, whiteness, and colonial trauma / Alfred J. López

"Motley's the only wear" : hybridity, homelands, and Conrad's harlequin / Frances B. Singh

Hymns for and from white Australia / Christopher Kelen

The times of whiteness; or, race between the postmodern and the postcolonial / Ryan S. Trimm.

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