Re-Orienting Whiteness

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Whiteness and “the Imperial Turn”....Pages 17-30
The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication....Pages 31-43
“Whiteness,” Geopolitical Reconfiguration, and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth-Century Victorian Politics....Pages 45-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Traveling White....Pages 65-72
The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 73-82
“Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian Land”: Interrogating Intersections between Whiteness and Child Rescue....Pages 83-98
“I Followed England Round the World”: The Rise of Trans-Imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism, and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-Century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim....Pages 99-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
White is Wonderful: Emotional Conversion and Subjective Formation....Pages 119-134
The Fabrication of White Homemaking: Louisa Meredith in Colonial Tasmania....Pages 135-148
Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: A Case of Racial Clarity on Queensland’s Colonial Borderlands, 1880–1900....Pages 149-164
The Deluded White Woman and the Expatriation of the White Child....Pages 165-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
“Women’s Objective—A Perfect Race”: Whiteness, Eugenics, and the Articulation of Race....Pages 183-198
“Born and Nurtured in Darkest Ignorance”: White Imaginings of Aboriginal Maternity....Pages 199-218
Rethinking “Squaw Men” and “Pakeha-Maori”: Legislating White Masculinity in New Zealand and Canada, 1840–1900....Pages 219-234
Into the White Man’s Kingdom: Whiteness and Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1960s....Pages 235-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Epilogue....Pages 253-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-271