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Conceptualizing Whiteness

This factsheet uses insights from Timothy Stanley, Marina Valverde, and Vic
Satzewich to argue that white people are radicalized as superior, and that who is deemed white changes with time, place and circumstance.

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References

Satzewich, Vic. “Whiteness Limited: Racialization and the Social Construction of ‘Peripheral Europeans. ’” Social History / Histoire Sociale 33, no. 66 (2000): 1-19. https://hssh-journals-yorkuca.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/index.php/hssh/article/v iew/4566
Stanley, Timothy. “Introduction: Questioning the Existence of the World,” In Contesting White Supremacy:School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians 1-19. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.
Valverde, Mariana. "Racial Purity, Sexual Purity, and Immigration Policy." The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008: 104-128. https://coursematerials.library.uvic.ca/ares/ares.dll?Action=10&Type=10&Value=182904

Source Authors

Mariana Valverde, Timothy Stanley, Vic Satzewich

Events

Keywords

'deracialized inclusion', 'new social history', Anti-Chinese racism, Anti-Racism, assimilation, bloc settlements, Chinese Canadians, constructionist, cultural representation, Deportation, discourse, enfranchisement, European immigration, European Settlers, Exclusion, first-wave feminism, Identity, Indigenous dispossession, invisible, knowledge production, morality, Othering, People of Colour, Power, power structures, race, race as a social construct, Racialization, racialized, racialized exclusions, racialized identity, segregation, sexually transmitted infection (STI), social organization, social processes, Strangers Within Our Gates, the Anglo Saxon identity, Ukrainian-Canadian, White Feminism, white feminists, White Supremacy

Key Figures

Barbra Roberts, Clifford Sifton, Hannah Ardent, Marilyn Barber

Locations

British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver Island