Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness

Name: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in WhitenessAuthor(s): Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367403799, 978-0367403799\nSynopsis\nThis handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality.\n\nSituating the critical study of whiteness as a core intellectual pillar in a broadly based project for racial and social justice, the volume understands whiteness as elaborated in global coloniality through epistemology, ideology and governmentality at the intersections with heteropatriarchy and capitalism. The diverse contributions present Black and other racially diverse scholarship as crucial to the field. The focus of inquiry is expanded beyond Northern Anglophone contexts to challenge centre/margin relations, examining whiteness in the Cari.