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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816670803321

Titolo

Shades of whiteness / / edited by Ewan Kirkland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-84888-383-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

905

Soggetti

Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- ‘A terrible familiarity’: Gravity’s Rainbow, Spies and Circumventing the Terror of Whiteness / Kyle Smith -- White Privilege and Desire in the ‘Paradise Trilogy’ / Mai-Anh Boger and Vildan Aytekin -- The White-Washing of Black Characters in Comic Book and Supernatural Films / William M. Jones Jr. -- Inside the Italian Empire: Colonial Africa, Race Wars, and the ‘Southern Question’ / Christopher A. Shinn -- The Construction of Whiteness in the Work of The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology / Ulrika Kjellman and Christer Eld -- Poor Whites: A Threat, Challenge and Embarrassment to South African Formations of White Identity / Thandiwe Ntshinga -- The Invisibility of Whiteness in the White Feminist Imagination / Rakhi Ruparelia -- Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism and White Privilege: Media Discourses on Rummet / Sarah Philipson , Malin Holm and Suruchi Thapar Björkert -- The Myth of the White Minority / Andrew J. Pierce -- Travelling through Shades of Whiteness: Irish Travellers as Inferior Whites / Michal Wolniak.