Eurowhiteness : culture, empire and race in the European project
1. European Regionalism -- 2. Ideas of Europe -- 3. From Colonial Project to Community of Memory -- 4. A New Civilising Mission -- 5. The Civilisational Turn in the European Project -- 6. Brexit and Imperial Amnesia -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Hurst & Company,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | White people-Race identity White people-Race identity-Europe European Union countries-Race relations White people |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (129 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 1. European Regionalism -- 2. Ideas of Europe -- 3. From Colonial Project to Community of Memory -- 4. A New Civilising Mission -- 5. The Civilisational Turn in the European Project -- 6. Brexit and Imperial Amnesia -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover. "The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with 'whiteness'. Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust, but not the lessons of colonial history. The EU is about power as much as peace--and civic ideas of Europe are being displaced by ethnic and cultural ones. Since the 2015 refugee crisis, whiteness has become even more central to European identity--a troubling new turn in Europe's long civilisational project. It is time to confront the relationship between ideas of Europe and ideas of race." -- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (129 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781805260813 1805260812 9781787389328 1787389324 |