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Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global
Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly
interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our
understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine
whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after the election
of the first black U.S. president, post-global financial crisis,
more than a decade after 9/11, and concomitant with a rash of
xenophobic incidents across the globe, the book distills several
key themes associated with a post-millennial global whiteness: the
individual and collective emotions of whiteness, the recentering of
whiteness through governing and legal strategies, and the retreats
from social equity and justice that have characterized the late
twentieth and twenty-first century nation state. It also attempts
the difficult work of reimagining white identities and cultures for
a new era. Chapters in Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First
Century draw from the fields of African-American studies, English
studies, media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology,
sociology, education, and women's studies. Using
transdisciplinarity as a mode of inquiry for the project and
responding to the changing phenomenon of whiteness across several
continents (Australia, Canada, France, Romania, South Africa,
Sweden, and the United States), the collection brings together
established and emerging scholars and a range of critical
approaches to unveil and intervene in the ideologies of whiteness
in our contemporary moment. Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First
Century demonstrates that complex inquiry and activism are needed
to challenge new iterations of whiteness in twenty-first-century
political and social spaces.
Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international
scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its
relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble
common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting,
and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating
ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a
monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is
that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates
racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the
conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The
volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that
multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial
adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be.
The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures,
and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing
perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the
United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various
methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology,
sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and
robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and
considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees,
Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the
Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of
transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
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