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..., The Racial Contract, as illustrative. On the one hand, it is an academic bestseller; on the other hand, it has had next to no impact on the debate within mainstream white contractarian and Rawlsian political philosophy. The chapter ends with some speculations about why the “whiteness” of philosophy...

... on dance and public health, twisting, contortions, hopping, and contagious enthusiasm represented the spectre of sexually taboo and ungainly blackness, against which ‘modern’ (white) dancing set itself. The choreographic discourse on modernity after Sigmund Freud conjugated primitive, infantile gestures...

...The introduction argues that a tradition of liberal white race fiction has been a key component of American literary history. It surveys scholarship defining “racial liberalism” and “racial capitalism” and considers their application to literary analysis and concludes with summaries of the book’s...

... Wyndham Olivia Bohemians Burra Edward Chappell William ‘Billy’ Chincherinchee Gardens Grosvenor Loelia Duchess of Westminster Mendl Elsie Lady Elsie de Wolfe Moore Doris Langley Parties Atkinson’s Cinema Makeup Whiteness Wilkinson Norman Art deco Chandeliers Country Life Mirrors Queen...

...White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly...

...This chapter comments on the relative insignificance of whiteness to Hindi film narratives, with white characters turning up, when they do, often as peripheral figures to create the effect of historical accuracy. It argues that in Hindi cinema, whiteness cannot function as it does in the West...

... and social psychologists have used to understand how individuals think of their own Whiteness and Blackness. The chapter begins by contextualizing White narratives within social-psychological research on Whiteness and then turns to an examination of the mixed impact that interracial intimacy has on White...

... than O'Hara's ambivalent poems. His works simultaneously celebrate and try to jettison a series of intertwined values and concepts: avant-garde poetics, whiteness, Western literary tradition, and, as this chapter suggests, homosexuality. Baraka Amiri LeRoi Jones Beats the Black Mountain poets...

...This chapter discusses racial passing—historically, the dark body blending, without any remark or notice, into whiteness. It is argued here that it offers nothing on the surface to see. Where the masquerade exposes its layers—spotlighting the gap between the false surface and the deeper real—racial...

...In dominant historical archaeological interpretations of white American domestic sites, the knowledge of why and how those spaces were white is all too often suppressed, ignored, or wished away. The search for racialization processes has focused primarily on people of color, including those who...

... professions Woods W J work Britain religious affiliations ‘social identity’ Tosh John alcoholism diagnoses ethnicity occupations sexuality whiteness women bodies Chinese families Illustrated Melbourne Post poverty syphilis goldrush health mental transfers tropics urban welfare...

...This chapter tracks how artists inhabit the subjective space of whiteness as a closing ranks move. This idea may seem counterintuitive, but for many thinkers, exploring whiteness is useful in determining the conventional parameters of Black identity. The act of identifying and challenging...

... that the international political practices that have governed the U.S. attitude toward Haiti also govern, on a local level, the Supten dynasty’s relationship to Bon. In both contexts, the sexually “deviant” expression is displaced onto a racial difference that is then policed by the rule of whiteness. Absalom Absalom...

... culture a product of Spain's colonizing influence. However, more than a discourse in favor of Spain, Hispanophilia was first and foremost a discourse that sought to differentiate Puerto Rico from the United States. Proponents of Hispanophilia argue that the nation is culturally white...

.... It is argued that Brazilians live with a “comfortable racial contradiction” that includes obvious structural racism, a racial ideology that promotes the superiority of whiteness and the inferiority of blackness, but also a pride in racial mixture and racial tolerance that was enforced by Brazil’s...

... and the racialized belief system that still posits the superiority of whiteness never come to the surface in these (still rare) discussions of how and when to notice racial difference. The author returns to the central point that within a context where racial cordiality is still preferred, a focus on cultural...

... tropes and the ways in which they are attached to certain emotions as well as the ways in which they then signify the meanings of specific “races” of women. It argues that Indonesia's nationalized geographical space became a useful signifier to provide meanings for an “Indonesian” white beauty category...

... an image. The chapter argues that the stereopticon, also known as the “magic lantern,” functions figuratively in Go Down, Moses as an image for viewing a person or the novel. Drawing on critical race studies and theories of whiteness, it explores the subtleties of the concept...

...The Souls of White Folks: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques Whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts (which...