Re-Orienting Whiteness

This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.

Author: K. Ellinghaus
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/15/2009
Pages: 271
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230618855

About the Author
Katherine Ellinghaus is a Monash Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. Jane Carey is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Melbourne.