This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in
Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines,
arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a
"post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the
lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. Drawing on research from
people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the author offers insights into
how color matters and is made to matter and into the ways in which
terms such as "ethnic" and "ethnicity" remain very much indebted to
their older, racialized grammar. Color that Matters moves beyond
the conventional Anglo-American focus of scholarship in this field,
showing that while similarities exist between the racial and ethnic
discourses of the US and UK and those found in the Nordic region,
Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, manifests important
differences, in part owing to a tendency to view itself as
exceptional or outside the colonial heritage of race and
imperialism. Presenting both a contextualization of racial
discourses since World War II based on documentary analysis and new
interview material with people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the
book acts as a corrective to the blind spot within Scandinavian
research on ethnic minorities, offering a new reading of race for
the Nordic region that engages with the idea that color has been
emptied of legitimate cultural content.
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