Re-Orienting Whiteness

Chapter 1 Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field

Chapter 2 Whiteness and “the Imperial Turn”

Chapter 3 The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication

Chapter 4 “Whiteness,” Geopolitical Reconfiguration, and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth-Century Victorian Politics

Chapter 5 Traveling White

Chapter 6 The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English-Speaking Countries in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 7 “Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian Land”: Interrogating Intersections between Whiteness and Child Rescue

Chapter 8 “I Followed England Round the World”: The Rise of Trans-Imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism, and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-Century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim

Chapter 9 White is Wonderful: Emotional Conversion and Subjective Formation

Chapter 10 The Fabrication of White Homemaking: Louisa Meredith in Colonial Tasmania

Chapter 11 Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: A Case of Racial Clarity on Queensland’s Colonial Borderlands, 1880–1900

Chapter 12 The Deluded White Woman and the Expatriation of the White Child

Chapter 13 “Women’s Objective—A Perfect Race”: Whiteness, Eugenics, and the Articulation of Race

Chapter 14 “Born and Nurtured in Darkest Ignorance”: White Imaginings of Aboriginal Maternity

Chapter 15 Rethinking “Squaw Men” and “Pakeha-Maori”: Legislating White Masculinity in New Zealand and Canada, 1840–1900

Chapter 16 Into the White Man’s Kingdom: Whiteness and Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1960s

Chapter 17 Epilogue