Lexington Books
Pages: 304
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7391-9296-2 • Hardback • December 2014 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-7391-9297-9 • eBook • December 2014 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
Veronica Watson is professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Deirdre Howard-Wagner is an Australian Research Council discovery early career research fellow and president of the Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand.
Lisa B. Spanierman is associate professor in the Faculty of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Veronica Watson
Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Lisa Spanierman
Part I: Affective Whiteness
Section Introduction: Feeling White
Melissa Steyn
Chapter 1The Emotions of White Racism and Antiracism
Lisa B. Spanierman
Nolan L. Cabrera
Chapter 2Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian Internet
Adela Fofiu
Chapter 3Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis
Tobias Hübinette
Catrin Lundström
Part II: Governing through Whiteness
Section Introduction: Piercing the Veil
Charles W. Mills
Chapter 4Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996–2007
Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Chapter 5The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public Policy
Delores V. Mullings
Chapter 6Arizona 2010
Brandy Jensen
Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Chapter 7“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Reading France’s Recognition Politics through Fanon’s Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality
Vanessa Eileen Thompson
Part III: Disrupting and Reimagining Whiteness
Section Introduction:When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their Foundations
George Yancy
Chapter 8Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and Belonging
Anthea Garman
Chapter 9I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found: Exploring the White Feminist Confessional
Emily R.M. Lind
Chapter 10Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies
Veronica Watson
Becky Thompson
About the Contributors