Description

*The Hegemony of Whiteness* contains reflections on whiteness and racism in everyday life and within various institutional cultures. Drawing on her own experience of inhabiting a white world as a non-white body, the feminist and theorist Sara Ahmed examines how whiteness becomes ‘worldly’, and how whiteness is the result of a process of racialisation that creates the framework for what bodies ‘can do’.

In this anthology, the reader is introduced to a range of central themes in Ahmed’s writing, such as economies of affect, the politics of emotion, the Orient of the home, the promises of multiculturalism, and the phenomenology of whiteness. A central theme is her analysis of how whiteness manages to maintain its hegemony even through anti-racist endeavours and diversity projects.

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. The Hegemony of Whiteness is the first of her works to be published in Swedish.