Critical Whiteness
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These poems, composed in Somali and in English, provide a poetic reflection of the recently emerged debate on the theme of Caddaan Studies which means "White Studies". The criticism and counter-criticism contained in the debate dug so... more
In recent years a host of scholars have considered the contributions of various critical and poststructural perspectives to the study of college student development. This body of work has drawn on critical race theory, intersectionality,... more
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments’ recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region’s societies for livelihood on... more
Abstract: The developmentalist gaze of the Fair Trade movement is on Global South producers. In this article we turn our analytic gaze toward North American fair traders to explore the racialized, neocolonial power relations in which... more
In this concise introduction, Chad Kautzer demonstrates the shared emancipatory goals and methods of several radical philosophies, from Marxism and feminism to critical race and queer theory. Radical Philosophy examines the relations of... more
This essay succinctly combines the historical trajectories of whiteness in Europe and the United States regarding Spanishness underscoring the situationality of whiteness at large as an ideological means that goes beyond the mere... more
This is the first-ever volume appeared on whiteness in the Hispanic and Lusophone Studies and published by Transmodernity in 2018. Overall, this issue offers a thorough and comprehensive interdisciplinary study of whiteness including a... more
This essay argues that the cult hit represents non–white, Asian and black, masculinity as fragmented in order to narrate white masculinity as whole.
This paper considers the positionality and reflexivity of non- Romani, ally-identified researchers vis-à-vis insider/outsider research by critically examining – or queer(y)ing – non-Romani researcher identity and the privilege that goes... more
Als Gründungsmitglied der Politgruppe Reclaim Society! 2010, sowie mit einem zeitlichen Abstand zu dessen Auflösung im Herbst 2012, versuche ich in folgendem Artikel einige Reflexionen zur politischen Arbeit bei/mit RS! öffentlich... more
Gender is a catastrophic oppressive imposition. Gender structures and is structured by settler colonialism, just as it marks and is marked by ongoing investments in anti-blackness. Not only is gender a violent erasure of Indigenous ways... more
The exclusive geographical placement of industrial machinery—what I henceforth refer to as “the machine”—was singularly important in securing and stabilizing the White working class male subject as an exceptionally productive one. Such... more
This paper is structured in three parts. Firstly, the introduction aims to visualize the trajectory of Spain’s racial rhetoric in relation to whiteness, and its European counterparts’ historical processes of racialization, thus offering... more
contains article Broeck, "It is always Now": On the Urgency of Enslavism Theory, and Studies
This chapter explores the politics of white complicity in contemporary debates about framing and commemorating white activism against apartheid, specifically war resistance in 1980s South Africa. As such, the chapter analyses the politics... more
Racism can be defeated, this guide will show you how!
The purpose of this multicase study was to examine how race functioned to shape life in campus residence halls. Guided by theories of neoliberalization and racialization, this study highlights the racialized meanings attached to... more
As Europeans we are all privileged. Not acknowledging that fact, makes us guilty. This paper was developed throughout a semester abroad in India and reflects personal lessons about privilege, class, and gender. It centres privilege not as... more
BOOK CHAPTER: IN SEARCH OF JOHN WAYNE: JOAN DIDION'S MYTH OF AMERICAN INNOCENCE
The purpose of this paper, given at the conference on INEQUALITY at the Munich Bavarian American Academy weekend July 9-11, 2015 conference ( see http://www.amerika-akademie.de/php/pub/main.php?db_id=663&lang_id=1) will be to join the... more
This essay probes into the rise and deterioration of multiculturalism in the West, paired with the notion of white guilt. It further explores the shift of the Western discourse to inform of the present-day conflation of populism and white... more
Mises à mort et nouveaux princes, pour répondre à Black Lives Matter et à tout désir d’émancipation, la République française dégaine ses politiques de respectabilité. Stratégies de terreur et de récompenses, rien de nouveau qu’un vieux... more
I. PROBLEM: LACK OF ALTRUISM IN MEDIA PORTRAYAL You can read English Anglo-Saxon able-bodied Hellenistic narcissism in any Guardian headline. For example, in Prince Harry being the first Royal to reach the South Pole, the physically... more
Franks, P.E (1988) : Favouritism: a dynamic process in organizational politics. South Africa Journal of Labour Relations 12 (1), pages 21 - 25. Franks, P.E (1987) : Favouritism : a dynamic process in organizational politics. Paper... more
Paper presented to the Psycological Association of South Africa Congress, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, 7th October, 1986. Published as: Franks, P.E (1987) : White resistance to black advancement : empirical findings. South... more
""Contemporaneous with the rise of the post?racial has been the critique of mainstream HipHop as minstrel reprise (Kitwana 2003, Crouch 2004, Little Brother 2005, Louis 2006, Ogbar 2007, Paris 2008). My paper applies Toni Morrison’s... more
An innovative, wide-ranging collection of essays that address 'trans' topics in spirited and challenging ways."-Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University " Lori Celaya and Sonja Watson's intriguing and wideranging collection explores the... more
During the first one hundred and fifty years of European settlement in Australia, whiteness as a social construction underlay continuous definition and redefinition with regard to its boundaries of belonging. Initially, the convicts... more
During the first one hundred and fifty years of European settlement in Australia, whiteness as a social construction underlay continuous definition and redefinition with regard to its boundaries of belonging. Initially, the convicts usually... more