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By Alfred J. Lopez

Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations among whiteness and the historical past of ecu colonialism, in addition to the prestige of whiteness within the modern postcolonial global. It addresses basic questions: What occurs to whiteness after empire, and to what volume do white cultural norms or imperatives stay embedded within the postcolonial or postindependence nation as a part—acknowledged or not—of the colonial legacy? offering quite a lot of serious and theoretical responses, the individuals discover those questions by way of targeting such various subject matters because the legacy of Princess Diana; queer self-expression; the altering scenario of Gypsy, or Romani, minorities in japanese Europe; literature, together with Joseph Conrad’s middle of Darkness, Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge, and Gothic impression at the literature of Australia; reconstruction of white South African social identification; cross-cultural discussions of psychological disease; Freud’s case historical past of the Wolfman; and Australia’s nationwide anthems.

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See Bhabha, 19–39. 28. See López, Posts, 6–7. 29. ” I part company with Roediger’s notion of a class solidarity that transcends race and ethnic identity, however, because it represents a throwback to outdated theorizations of the transcendental Marxist proletariat subject, a model that has historically ignored differences of gender, race, and ethnicity to its own eventual chagrin. Such a class-constituted postwhite subject does indeed fall prey to the dangers Wiegman sees of “reconfirm[ing] a universalist narcissistic white logic” that ultimately serves only to reinvent whiteness as antiracist while allowing it to keep (and shore up) its privilege and power.

John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. San Francisco: Harper Collins. Hill, Mike. 1997. Introduction: Vipers in Shangri-la: Whiteness, writing, and other ordinary terrors. In Whiteness: A critical reader, ed. Mike Hill, 1–18. New York: New York University Press. hooks, bell. 1992. Representing whiteness in the black imagination. In Displacing whiteness: Essays in social and cultural criticism, ed. Ruth Frankenberg, 165–79. Durham: Duke University Press. Ignatiev, Noel. 1995. How the Irish became white.

See also Trías Monge for a study of the United States’ continued “protection” of Puerto Rico and other such properties. 11. See López, Posts, 85–119. 12. ’s Post-colonial Reader. Both the editors’ introduction to the section entitled “Ethnicity and Indigeneity” and the contributors’ essays they include in it generally eschew the binary oppositions of race and colonial power that I am critiquing here. See Ashcroft, 213–45. 13. See López, Posts, 224–25. 14. See Garvey 1997. 15. For a lengthier discussion on this point that I pursue elsewhere, see López, Posts, 121.

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