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Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: Paradoxes of colonialism and race [PDF]

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: Paradoxes of colonialism and race (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016, 240 pp., isbn 978 082 236 075 9).
Joost Coté
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The Burden of Racial Innocence: British-Invasion Rock Memoirs and the U.S. South

European Journal of Life Writing, 2022
Mid-sixties British rock musicians have rationalized their firsthand experience and profitable interactions with American racial segregation by adopting a stance of racial innocence, or a belief that youth and virtue make one immune to charges of ...
Matthew Sutton
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Becoming White in a White Supremacist State: The Public and Psychological Wages of Whiteness for Undocumented 1.5-Generation Brazilians

Social Sciences, 2021
This study draws on in-depth and longitudinal interviews with twenty-nine 1.5-generation Brazilian immigrants, all of whom can pass as white and experienced illegality in young adulthood. I argue that they benefit from what W.E.B.
Kara Cebulko
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Deployments of Multiracial Masculinity and Anti-Black Violence: The Racial Framings of Barack Obama, George Zimmerman, and Daunte Wright

Social Sciences, 2022
In this article, I examine how political and media discourses of multiraciality are deployed to justify guilt and innocence. I trace the deployment of multiraciality to determine who is deserving of life or death in media coverage, political rhetoric ...
Jasmine Mitchell
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White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie

Práticas da História, 2023
This essay uses Miguel Dores’ documentary Alcindo (2020) to propose a critique of whiteness in Portugal. It is argued that the endorsement of narratives of lusotropicalismo, Portuguese colonial exceptionalism, forms a line of continuity between Portugal’
Patrícia Martins Marcos
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Terrorising innocence: Australia’s counter-terrorism laws trump freedom of liberty

, 2021
Extant threats—from terrorists to health pandemics—test our resolve in the arena of liberty and human rights. Our fidelity to the presumption of innocence often wavers in these circumstances, whether the threat is real or illusory.
Dana, S, White, B
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Troubling White Women’s Desire for Innocence in Community-Based Social Work Practice: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

Critical Social Work, 2023
Understanding the effects of White femininity on social work practice is a worthy endeavour provided the disproportionate numbers of White women that have built and occupied the professional role of social worker from the origins of colonization to ...
Jill Hoselton, Christine Walsh
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A Stylistic Approach to Thomas Campion’s There Is a Garden in Her Face / Thomas Campion’ın Yüzü Bir Gül Bahçesi’ne Biçembilimsel Bir Yaklaşım [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2023
Literary works come into existence through authors’ use of language units in particular ways. Style is considered as the choice of linguistic characteristics from all the probabilities in language.
Halit Alkan
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The “Gutting” of Grutter: White Racial Innocence and Post-racialism in the Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas Austin Oral Arguments

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2013
Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2013) is the continuation of the Supreme Court’s negotiation of the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions practices in educational settings.
Ikena Acholonu
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Beyond White Gays/Gaze: Imperialist Nostalgia, Racialized Homophobia and Queer Extravaganza

, 2021
‘Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go?’ With Gloria Wekker’s question in mind, I propose to discuss the concept of imperialist nostalgia, i.e. ‘a condition in which colonizers mourn the passing of what they themselves have altered, destroyed, or ...
Bomans, Bastien
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