Off White

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th-Century History at the University of Hull. Bogdan C. Iacob is Researcher at the 'Nicolae Iorga' Institute of History, Romanian Academy Anikó Imre is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. -- .

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Introduction: racial disavowals – historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe – James Mark, Anikó Imre, Bogdan C. Iacob and Catherine Baker
1 Wilson’s white world: the foundation of Central-Eastern European nation-states after World War I – James Mark
2 The ‘racial contract’, ‘whiteness contract’, and Central Europe – Bolaji Balogun
3 Not quite white: Russians as Turanians in nineteenth-century Polish thought – Maciej Górny
4 Racial thinking among Czech anthropologists: the case of Vojtech Suk – Victoria Shmidt
5 ‘Hungarian Indians’: race and colonialism in Hungarian ‘Indian play’ – Zoltán Ginelli
6 Peripheral whiteness and racial belonging and non-belonging: accounts from Albania – Chelsi West Ohueri
7 The aesthetics of alternation and the returns of race: Poland and the Jewish Question – Sudeep Dasgupta
8 Retailored for a Soviet spectator: racial difference and whiteness in the films of the 1930s to the early 1950s – Irina Novikova
9 ‘With the help of the great Russian people’: the (invisible) whiteness of Soviet anti-colonialism and gender emancipation from Central Asia to Khartoum – Yulia Gradskova
10 The whiteness of ‘Christian Europe’: the case of Hungary – Paul Hanebrink
11 Alien at home, white overseas: the Polish interwar Maritime and Colonial League and the ‘Jewish Question’ – Marta Grzechnik
12 Midsommar and the production of white fantasy – Anikó Imre
13 In pursuit of Western modernity: Russian-speaking migrants claiming whiteness in Helsinki – Daria Krivonos
14 The ‘perpetual foreigner’ in Serbia: on being marked and unmarked in a ‘raceless’ state – Sunnie Rucker-Chang
15 Re-routing Eastern European whiteness: relational racialisation and historical proximity – Spela Drnovšek Zorko
16 Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology – Catherine Baker

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