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Author Kundnani, Hans, author

Title Eurowhiteness : culture, empire and race in the European project / Hans Kundnani
Published London : Hurst & Company, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)
Contents 1. European Regionalism -- 2. Ideas of Europe -- 3. From Colonial Project to Community of Memory -- 4. A New Civilising Mission -- 5. The Civilisational Turn in the European Project -- 6. Brexit and Imperial Amnesia
Summary "The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with 'whiteness'. Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust, but not the lessons of colonial history. The EU is about power as much as peace--and civic ideas of Europe are being displaced by ethnic and cultural ones. Since the 2015 refugee crisis, whiteness has become even more central to European identity--a troubling new turn in Europe's long civilisational project. It is time to confront the relationship between ideas of Europe and ideas of race."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2024)
Subject European Union
SUBJECT European Union fast
Subject White people -- Race identity -- Europe
Whites.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Race relations
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT European Union countries -- Race relations
Subject Europe
European Union countries
ISBN 1805260812
9781805260813
9781805262428
1805262424