Veronica Watson is professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Deirdre Howard-Wagner is an Australian Research Council discovery early career research fellow and president of the Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand.Lisa B. Spanierman is associate professor in the Faculty of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVeronica WatsonDeirdre Howard-WagnerLisa SpaniermanPart I: Affective WhitenessSection Introduction: Feeling WhiteMelissa SteynChapter 1The Emotions of White Racism and AntiracismLisa B. SpaniermanNolan L. CabreraChapter 2Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian InternetAdela FofiuChapter 3Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis Tobias Hübinette Catrin LundströmPart II: Governing through WhitenessSection Introduction: Piercing the VeilCharles W. MillsChapter 4Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996–2007Deirdre Howard-WagnerChapter 5The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public PolicyDelores V. MullingsChapter 6Arizona 2010Brandy JensenDeirdre Howard-Wagner Chapter 7“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Reading France’s Recognition Politics through Fanon’s Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality Vanessa Eileen ThompsonPart III: Disrupting and Reimagining WhitenessSection Introduction:When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their FoundationsGeorge YancyChapter 8Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and BelongingAnthea GarmanChapter 9I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found: Exploring the White Feminist ConfessionalEmily R.M. LindChapter 10Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its RemediesVeronica WatsonBecky ThompsonAbout the Contributors

Innovative scholars from an impressive array of disciplines here probe holistically critical dimensions of the world’s interlocking system of white racial oppression. Examining countries across the globe—the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, France, Australia—they demonstrate the oppressive effects of persisting white domination in areas ranging from the extreme emotions of cyberhate, to commonplace revanchist politics retreating from hard-won human rights and multiracial democracy.

Veronica Watson is professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Deirdre Howard-Wagner is an Australian Research Council discovery early career research fellow and president of the Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand.Lisa B. Spanierman is associate professor in the Faculty of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVeronica WatsonDeirdre Howard-WagnerLisa SpaniermanPart I: Affective WhitenessSection Introduction: Feeling WhiteMelissa SteynChapter 1The Emotions of White Racism and AntiracismLisa B. SpaniermanNolan L. CabreraChapter 2Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian InternetAdela FofiuChapter 3Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis Tobias Hübinette Catrin LundströmPart II: Governing through WhitenessSection Introduction: Piercing the VeilCharles W. MillsChapter 4Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996–2007Deirdre Howard-WagnerChapter 5The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public PolicyDelores V. MullingsChapter 6Arizona 2010Brandy JensenDeirdre Howard-Wagner Chapter 7“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Reading France’s Recognition Politics through Fanon’s Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality Vanessa Eileen ThompsonPart III: Disrupting and Reimagining WhitenessSection Introduction:When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their FoundationsGeorge YancyChapter 8Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and BelongingAnthea GarmanChapter 9I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found: Exploring the White Feminist ConfessionalEmily R.M. LindChapter 10Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its RemediesVeronica WatsonBecky ThompsonAbout the Contributors

Innovative scholars from an impressive array of disciplines here probe holistically critical dimensions of the world’s interlocking system of white racial oppression. Examining countries across the globe—the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, France, Australia—they demonstrate the oppressive effects of persisting white domination in areas ranging from the extreme emotions of cyberhate, to commonplace revanchist politics retreating from hard-won human rights and multiracial democracy.

Veronica Watson is professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Deirdre Howard-Wagner is an Australian Research Council discovery early career research fellow and president of the Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand.Lisa B. Spanierman is associate professor in the Faculty of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVeronica WatsonDeirdre Howard-WagnerLisa SpaniermanPart I: Affective WhitenessSection Introduction: Feeling WhiteMelissa SteynChapter 1The Emotions of White Racism and AntiracismLisa B. SpaniermanNolan L. CabreraChapter 2Stories of a White Apocalypse on the Romanian InternetAdela FofiuChapter 3Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia: A Diagnosis of a White Nation in Crisis Tobias Hübinette Catrin LundströmPart II: Governing through WhitenessSection Introduction: Piercing the VeilCharles W. MillsChapter 4Governing through Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Reconstituting Australian Culture and Cultural Diversity in the Howard Era, 1996–2007Deirdre Howard-WagnerChapter 5The Institutionalization of Whiteness in Contemporary Canadian Public PolicyDelores V. MullingsChapter 6Arizona 2010Brandy JensenDeirdre Howard-Wagner Chapter 7“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Reading France’s Recognition Politics through Fanon’s Critique of Whiteness and Coloniality Vanessa Eileen ThompsonPart III: Disrupting and Reimagining WhitenessSection Introduction:When Heaven and Earth Are Shaken to Their FoundationsGeorge YancyChapter 8Troubling White Englishness in South Africa: A Self-Interrogation of Privilege, Complicity, Citizenship, and BelongingAnthea GarmanChapter 9I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found: Exploring the White Feminist ConfessionalEmily R.M. LindChapter 10Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its RemediesVeronica WatsonBecky ThompsonAbout the Contributors

Innovative scholars from an impressive array of disciplines here probe holistically critical dimensions of the world’s interlocking system of white racial oppression. Examining countries across the globe—the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, France, Australia—they demonstrate the oppressive effects of persisting white domination in areas ranging from the extreme emotions of cyberhate, to commonplace revanchist politics retreating from hard-won human rights and multiracial democracy.