ABSTRACT
Accepting the urgency of the task that confronts anti-racists in Europe, North America, and other parts of the world, not least in the coming months, this chapter is structured by two familiar principles: the politics of location, once famously articulated by Adrienne Rich; and the concept of ‘racial situations’, first developed by anthropologist John Hartigan Jr. Taking the form of a travelogue on European and global whiteness, it describes a journey that is marked by war, migration, sexual politics, and ultra-nationalism. It asks how we might usefully expand our horizons on whiteness, not just to accommodate the many perspectives from which we speak, but also to acknowledge the interconnectedness of the problems we face today.
