ABSTRACT

Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches. Gathering these new and global perspectives, this book presents a much-needed collection of the various forms, sophisticated theoretical developments and nuanced analyses that the field of critical race and whiteness theories and studies offers today. Organized around the themes of emotions, technologies, consumption, institutions, crisis, identities and on the margin, this presentation of critical race and whiteness theories and studies in its true interdisciplinary and international form provides the latest empirical and theoretical research, as well as new analytical approaches. Illustrating the strength of the field and embodying its future research directions, The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and whiteness.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

Writing a Handbook on critical race and whiteness theory in the time of Black Lives Matter and anti-racism backlash

part Section 1|50 pages

Technologies

chapter 2|2 pages

Introduction

Technologies

chapter 5|14 pages

White time

The relationship between racial identity, contexts, interactions and temporality

part Section 2|66 pages

Consumption

chapter 6|3 pages

Introduction

Consumption

chapter 8|16 pages

Whiteness, wellness and gender

A transnational feminist approach

chapter 10|19 pages

Textiles, fashion and race

Technologies of whiteness in the British colonies and metropole, c. 1700–1820

part Section 3|68 pages

Institutions

chapter 11|2 pages

Introduction

Institutions

chapter 12|12 pages

Walls can come tumbling down

Negotiating normative whiteness and racial micro-aggressions in the academy

chapter 16|14 pages

Division in economic integration

The effect of apartheid on white supremacy, white prosperity, and disunity in South Africa

part Section 4|71 pages

Crisis

chapter 18|16 pages

Whiteness in the Trumpocene

Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and the American race war to come

chapter 19|12 pages

The future of whiteness

chapter 20|11 pages

The Swedish racial formation

A critique of the sociology of absence

part Section 5|55 pages

Emotions

chapter 24|11 pages

The white habit of untrauma

chapter 25|13 pages

Racial habit

chapter 26|13 pages

White melancholia

A historicised analysis of hegemonic whiteness in Sweden

part Section 6|56 pages

Identities

chapter 28|2 pages

Introduction

Identities

chapter 30|14 pages

Modern dating in a post-colonial city

Desire, race and identities of cosmopolitanism in Metro Manila

chapter 32|15 pages

To be or not to be ‘White' in Japan

Japaneseness and racial whiteness through the lens of mixed Japanese people