Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030076970 ISBN 13: 9783030076979

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White. 

The chapters in this book specifically implicate European Whiteness – whether attempting to reflect, negate, or obtain it – in social structures that facilitate and normalise racism. The authors interrogate the dehumanisation of Blackness, arguing that dehumanisation enables the continuation of racism in White dominated societies. As such, the book explores instances of dehumanisation across different contexts, highlighting that although the forms may be locally specific, the outcomes are continually negative for those racialised as Black. 

The volume is refreshingly extensive in its analyses of racism beyond Europe and the United States, including contributions from Africa, South America and Australia, and illuminates previously unexplored manifestations of racism across the globe. 

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About the Author

Philomena Essed is Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies for Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change

Karen Farquharson is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Kathryn Pillay is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

Elisa Joy White is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at University of California at Davis

From the Back Cover

This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White. 

The chapters in this book specifically implicate European Whiteness – whether attempting to reflect, negate, or obtain it – in social structures that facilitate and normalise racism. The authors interrogate the dehumanisation of Blackness, arguing that dehumanisation enables the continuation of racism in White dominated societies. As such, the book explores instances of dehumanisation across different contexts, highlighting that although the forms may be locally specific, the outcomes are continually negative for those racialised as Black. 

The volume is refreshingly extensive in its analyses of racism beyond Europe and the United States, including contributions from Africa, South America and Australia, and illuminates previously unexplored manifestations of racism across the globe. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030076970
• ISBN 13: 9783030076979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 486
• Editor: Essed Philomena, Farquharson Karen, Pillay Kathryn, White Elisa Joy