Re-Orienting Whiteness

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1 Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field......Page 10
Part I: Historians Approaching the Study of Whiteness......Page 24
2 Whiteness and “the Imperial Turn”......Page 26
3 The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication......Page 40
4 “Whiteness,” Geopolitical Reconfiguration, and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth-Century Victorian Politics......Page 54
Part II: Whiteness as a Transnational Colonial Production......Page 72
5 Traveling White......Page 74
6 The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 82
7 “Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian Land”: Interrogating Intersections between Whiteness and Child Rescue......Page 92
8 “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......Page 108
Part III: Whiteness as a Settler-Colonial Identity......Page 126
9 White is Wonderful: Emotional Conversion and Subjective Formation......Page 128
10 The Fabrication of White Homemaking: Louisa Meredith in Colonial Tasmania......Page 144
11 Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: A Case of Racial Clarity on Queensland’s Colonial Borderlands, 1880–1900......Page 158
12 The Deluded White Woman and the Expatriation of the White Child......Page 174
Part IV: Whiteness and the Imagining/Managing of Colonial Populations......Page 190
13 “Women’s Objective—A Perfect Race”: Whiteness, Eugenics, and the Articulation of Race......Page 192
14 “Born and Nurtured in Darkest Ignorance”: White Imaginings of Aboriginal Maternity......Page 208
15 Rethinking “Squaw Men” and “Pakeha-Maori”: Legislating White Masculinity in New Zealand and Canada, 1840–1900......Page 228
16 Into the White Man’s Kingdom: Whiteness and Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia, 1880s–1960s......Page 244
Part V: Conclusion......Page 260
17 Epilogue......Page 262
Notes on Contributors......Page 268
A......Page 272
C......Page 273
F......Page 274
I......Page 275
M......Page 276
P......Page 277
S......Page 278
W......Page 279
Y......Page 280