Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race

Abstract

This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identities, and of the region's current status as a global stronghold of unapologetic white, Christian nationalisms. Contributions address the pivotal role of whiteness in international diplomacy, geographical exploration, media cultures, music, intellectual discourses, academic theories, everyday language and banal nationalism's many avenues of expressions. The book offers new paradigms for understanding the relationships among racial capitalism, populism, economic peripherality and race.

Citation

Baker, C., Iacob, B. C., Imre, A., & Mark, J. (Eds.). (2024). Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: May 28, 2024
• Publication Date: May 28, 2024
• Deposit Date: Aug 9, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2024
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Series Title: Racism, Resistance and Social Change
• ISBN: 9781526172204
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211
• Keywords: Central Europe; coloniality; Eastern Europe; race; whiteness; Southeast Europe; anti-Semitism; nationalism; imperialism; racial capitalism
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4354308
• Publisher URL: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526172211/9781526172211.xml
• Contract Date: Aug 9, 2023