Whiteness in a German Classroom

Mai-Anh Julia Boger

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Whiteness in a German Classroom

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Pages:: 139–151

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848882829_014

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What is the German (self-) image of whiteness? To analyse this image, whiteness is framed as ‘white normality’ according to the theory of normalism (Lingenauber; Link) in the tradition of Foucault’s concept of normalisation. Taken as an instrument of discourse analysis, this theory implies that the legitimation of white supremacy can be found in the self-image of whiteness. The method is a Grounded Theory Analysis of an ethnographic transcript. The hypothesis generated by this qualitative data analysis is: The German image of whiteness is an image of en-light-ened skin. The most interesting implication of this hypothesis for further research is the conceptualisation of whiteness as a habitus (Bourdieu), which enables us to elaborate a framework for research on the performance of whiteness.

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Unsettling Whiteness

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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