Geography matters? Whiteness and contemporary geography

McGuinness, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00133.x

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“…In circumstances where such talk becomes common, the uneven dispensation of citizenship and belonging becomes normalized, unquestioned, and harder to challenge. What emerges has been described by Kobayashi and Peake (2000) as the 'normalcy' of racism, where racism is almost unnoticed or seen as an aberration (McGuiness, 2000). Certain forms of exclusive situational norms are generated.…”

Section: Racism and Anti-racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities

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Cities are indeed places of everyday racism, experienced as ethnocentrism, prejudice and ethnic-based hatred. Drawing on an Australia-wide telephone survey of respondents' experiences of 'everyday' racism in various contexts, conducted in 2006, we examine forms of racist experience, as well as the contexts and responses to those experiences for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, Australia's main immigrant-receiving cities. Results show that between 1 in 10, and 1 in 3 respondents, depending on their background and situation, experience some form of 'everyday' racism. However, this particular aspect of urban incivility is shadowed by everyday good relations. There is what might be called a 'geography of cultural repair' and cultural maintenance within the cosmopolitan city. There is strong support for anti-racism policy. Where action is taken in response to racism, it is determined by everyday confrontations and attempts at direct reconciliation. Formal complaints and reports are much rarer forms of anti-racism. In this paper, we advocate a pragmatic on-going, agonistic politics of cultural exchange and tolerance. Racism and anti-racism

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Section: Racism and Anti-racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities

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“…By recognizing whiteness 'as a racial category rather than unmarked norm against which the racial difference of others is judged' (Nash 2003, 639), whiteness is revealed as contingent and mutable (Price 2010). This has enabled the differentiation of different strands of whiteness thereby destabilizing notions of 'white' identity as homogenous and stable by highlighting the significance of practices, performances, and perceptions in constituting a 'white' identity (Jackson 1998;McGuinness 2000;Nayak 2006Nayak , 2011Twine 1996).…”

Section: Gendered Geographies Of Race and Racializationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Positionality, subjectivity, and race in transnational and transcultural geographical research

Fisher

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article investigates the complexities of negotiating subject positions in transnational and transcultural research by focusing on the gendering of race and racialization. As more people claim to be of mixed 'racial' descent and Western researchers grow more diverse, it is increasingly important that this diversity is reflected within geographical research; however, much of the existing research on subjectivity and its role in the research process has focused either on 'white' researchers in Global South contexts or on researchers working in their 'home' country or community. Less visible are accounts from those who challenge conceptions of 'white' Western researcher or whose racial identity can be conceived as hybrid. Moreover, there is a tendency to conceptualize race/racialization and their effects on subjectivity and positionality in relatively narrow terms. This article draws attention to the changing subjectivities of a racialized gendered body as it moves into different contexts. I examine how conceptualizations of race and discourses of racialization constitute researcher subjectivity, and how different understandings of 'race' mediate relationships between researcher and research participants (and others). To understand the spatial (re)configurations of (race) subjectivities and how this affects researcher positionality, I offer an autoethnography of a bi/multiracial Western woman of New Zealand Māori/Pākehā descent interpellated as 'insufficient Other' in her home context of Aotearoa New Zealand, then reconstituted as white and 'sufficient Self' in the Philippines by her research participants and Filipino 'family' and friends.

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“…Within geography, there have been a number of recent calls (Kobayashi and Peake 2000;McGuinness 2000;Bonnett and Nayak 2003;Hoelscher 2003;J. McCarthy and Hague 2004) for examinations of racialization and whiteness outside of the sites where ''race'' and racism have most often been presumed to matter: in the case of the United States, the nation's large, segregated urban areas and the U.S. South (as in Nast 2000), as well as the exclusionary ''white bread'' suburbs (Dwyer and Jones 2000, 214;Duncan and Duncan 2003;Low 2003).…”

Section: Imaginative Geographies Of Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. As Wiegman (1999) warns, in some cases whites have strategically used the project of making whiteness (geographically) specific as a means to deflect charges of white racism and to establish a basis for minoritarian claims by whites who can now locate themselves within trajectories of discrimination and othering, as for example, descendants of once abject Irish immigrants or Appalachian ''white trash'' (see also McGuinness 2000). infinite particularity'' (Wiegman 1999, 118).…”

Section: Imaginative Geographies Of Whitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vermont and the Imaginative Geographies of American Whiteness

Vanderbeck

2006

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The U.S. state of Vermont is often portrayed as a place where “race” is of little significance, yet notions of whiteness are central to how the state has been represented and represents itself. A critical analysis of historical and contemporary economies of representation examines how Vermont has been imagined as one of the last remaining spaces of authentic Yankee whiteness while more recently becoming an imagined homeland for particular brands of white liberal politics and social practice in the United States. Narratives of white Vermont identity have often explicitly drawn on oppositions to other forms of whiteness, particularly those associated with the U.S. South, in constructing an image of a comparatively racially benign Yankee whiteness. Recent right‐wing discourses have explicitly attempted to construct Vermont whiteness as outside the American mainstream (not least through its discursive association with gay and lesbian sexualities), suggesting a need for geographical work on the (re)configuration of whiteness to reconsider where “normal” American whiteness is imagined to reside. The examination of the case of Vermont highlights the need for future geographical research to attend to continuities between various territorialized constructions of whiteness as well as contestations within whiteness.

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Geography matters? Whiteness and contemporary geography

Cited by 39 publications

References 26 publications

Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities

Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities

Positionality, subjectivity, and race in transnational and transcultural geographical research

Vermont and the Imaginative Geographies of American Whiteness

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