| Description |
1 online resource (179 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity Ser |
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Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Positioning this book, and ourselves -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 1: The modern history of Swedish whiteness and Swedish race relations -- Introduction -- The white purity period: The foundation of modern Swedish whiteness -- Race hygiene in the people's home -- The white solidarity period: The emergence of antiracist Sweden -- The white melancholy period: a white nation in crisis |
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White mourning for the loss of both old and good Sweden -- References -- Chapter 2: The emergence and development of the world's first colourblind nation -- Introduction -- Previous research and empirical material -- The Swedish race biological understanding of race -- The fight against the word race -- The idea of Swedish values and Swedishness as equating antiracism -- Taking the lead in combating racial prejudices in the world -- Sweden's international antiracist crusade against the word race -- The US as the worst example of racism |
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The battle for the souls of the Swedes and Sweden's place in the world -- References -- Chapter 3: The Swedish N-issue, Swedish N's and white transracial identifications -- Introduction -- The woman's issue as the Swedish N-issue in the 1940s and 1950s -- The inflation in the Swedish N-issues and the Swedish N's of the 1960s -- The 1970s and the end of a discursive figure -- The origin of modern Swedish antiracism as a white transracial desire -- References -- Chapter 4: Non-white adoptees and a new relationship between race and Swedishness -- Introduction |
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The transition from the white purity period to the white solidarity period -- The racial pessimists' fear of race mixing and warning for racial prejudices -- The racial optimists' future vision of a racially mixed and colourblind Sweden -- The legacy of the 1960s adoption debate, the Sweden Democrats and the adoptees -- References -- Chapter 5: Swedish whiteness as white terror and non-white rage in antiracist Sweden -- Introduction -- Remembering Swedish colonialism and Swedish racial thinking -- The far right, white terror and the recentring of race -- White and non-white racial emotions |
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Rage in the non-white Swedish literature -- Non-white rage in antiracist Sweden -- References -- Chapter 6: When colourblindness runs amok: The Swedish debate on equality data -- Introduction -- The Swedish debate on the question of equality data -- Swedish colourblindness as antiracialism -- The empirical material and the analytical approach -- Constructing equality data as a state race register -- Resistance to "identity politics" -- The notion of irrational "race politics" -- Defending and upholding the norm of colourblindness in Sweden -- References -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Racism-Sweden
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Sweden-Race relations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lundström, Catrin
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Wikström, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781000885538 |
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1000885534 |
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