Race in Sweden

Racism and Antiracism in the World's First 'Colourblind' Nation
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38592-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideology of colourblindness, with any kind of race talk being taboo in public discourse and everyday language use, and in practice forbidden in official and institutional language.

A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become extremely diverse, yet where the legacy of Swedish whiteness co-exists with a radical, colourblind, antiracist ideology, Race in Sweden will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness and Nordic studies.

Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hübinette, Tobias

Lundström, Catrin

Wikström, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The modern history of Swedish whiteness and Swedish race relations

2. The emergence and development of the world’s first colourblind nation

3. The Swedish N-issue, Swedish N’s and white transracial identifications

4. Non-white adoptees and a new relationship between race and Swedishness

5. Swedish whiteness as white terror and non-white rage in antiracist Sweden

6. When colourblindness runs amok: The Swedish debate on equality data

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Tobias Hübinette has a PhD in Korean studies and is a reader in intercultural education and a senior lecturer in intercultural studies and Swedish as a second language at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is engaged with Korean adoption studies and critical adoption studies, migration studies and Asian Swedish studies and Swedish critical race and whiteness studies, and he has published several books and other publications within these research fields in Korean, English and Swedish.

Catrin Lundström is associate professor of sociology and professor designate in ethnicity and migration studies at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University. She holds a PhD in sociology from Uppsala University and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Arizona and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of several books and articles within the fields of transnational migration, critical race and whiteness studies, ethnography and gender studies.

Peter Wikström is associate senior lecturer in English Linguistics at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is a discourse analyst specialising in online and social media discourse, as well as in the areas of language and gender, language and politics and language and ideology, in both Swedish-language and Anglophone contexts. His research has touched on topics such as race and racism, political correctness, public apologies and metadiscourse. In addition to publishing in these areas, he teaches courses in applied linguistics and discourse analysis.