Unsettling Whiteness

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. 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. 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 ‘Other’ 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 Bailey’s 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 Spielberg’s 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 Indin’: 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 ‘White Roles’ 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 Can’t Dance? Deconstructing Racial Stereotypes in Windowlicker