Critical Whiteness Studies: Potentiale und Grenzen eines wissenspolitischen Projekts

• Autores: Ina Kerner
• Localización: Feministische Studien, ISSN 0723-5186, Vol. 31, Nº. 2, 2013, pág. 6
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Critical Whiteness Studies, as they emerged in the U. S., attempt a critical understanding of whiteness as unmarked yet dominating social category and position.

    In many instances, authors who are engaged in this field of scholarship are convinced that color-blind patterns of argu mentation, whether in academic work or in politics, foster racism – and that addressing issues of »race«, especially addressing issues of whiteness, is therefore an appropriate tool of antiracism. In this essay, Ina Kerner assesses strengths and limits of this project for critiquing racism in contemporary Germany. Drawing on the current critical whiteness debate and on critical whiteness scholarship in that country, she suggests ways in which the core insights of Critical Whiteness Studies might be adapted to also fulfill their normative tasks in a context that historically differs from the one this field of inquiry was developed in. She also points to self-limitations of the current German debate.