ABSTRACT

Drawing on his ethnographic work with the far right, Teitelbaum offers a methodological perspective on the shifting ideological and geographical boundaries of whiteness, and the transitions among regimes of whiteness. The chapter presents a comparison of differing conceptions of whiteness in three settings: the American mainstream, the Swedish mainstream and in relation to global white nationalism. From here, Teitelbaum inquires the prospects of American ethnocentrism in understandings of global white identity and of the ways common academic understandings of whiteness struggle to understand organised racism.