Review: Martina Tißberger, Gabriele Dietze, Daniela Hrzán, and Jana Husmann- Kastein, eds.: Weiß - Weißsein – Whiteness: Kritische Studien zu Gender und Rassismus: Critical Studies on Gender and Racism.

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: 

This much-needed collection of German- and English-language essays on Critical Whiteness Studies combines different disciplinary and thematic approaches to the topic and explores this relatively new field in German academia. The articles - all of them well-structured and of readable length - interrogate a number of important (political) questions: What are the blind spots of German feminism when confronted with its own hegemonic position? Can Critical Whiteness Studies serve as a tool to approach the structural racisms that so are so easily neglected when racism is time and again only equated with right wing extremism and Neo-Nazi brutality? And how can we clarify the fact that race is not something that applies only to racially and ethnically marked people, but has a lot to do with Whiteness and Occidentalism?