Introduction: Reproducing and Resisting Whiteness in Organizations, Policies, and Places

Abstract

This special issue provides a unique opportunity to draw on and extend insights into the international and interdisciplinary field of “white studies” (Bonnett 1996b, 2008) or “critical whiteness studies” (Nayak 2007)1 for feminist social politics. In 1999, Ruth Frankenberg wrote: In a process that has been gradually gathering force over the last several years in the United States and elsewhere, whiteness is once again leaving its location in doxa, becoming a focus of discussion and critique for some, and a treasured yet endangered object for others. In this latter regard, we may note that in the United States white supremacist, white patriot and white militia terrorism is on the rise, with black churches, Southeast Asian schoolchildren, and government buildings among the targets … in assaults on government buildings and agents we see white activists self-styled as an endangered race, ostensibly fighting back or striking pre-emptively against a government … whose intention is to withdraw all basic rights from white people (the self-described true and just inheritors of the land). (Frankenberg 1999b, 16)

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