2025/01/01 by Marius Turda, Bolaji Balogun · 5 citations
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Central European national history #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies #Homogeneous #Interwar period #Latin Americans #Race (biology) #Racialization #Romani and Gypsy Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/slr.2025.10264
published in Slavic Review 84(3), 546-554 (Cambridge University Press)
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Abstract This article addresses the underrepresentation of “blackness” within Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), which has historically concentrated on the United States, western Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Despite calls for global expansion, CWS has so far inadequately engaged with the ways in which individuals perceived as “Black” were excluded from the idealized national community in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The marginalization of blackness profoundly influenced discussions around national belonging throughout the twentieth century and continues to shape debates on race in the region today. We re-examine the significance of blackness, particularly through the racialization of Roma communities in interwar Romania and the implications of blackness elsewhere in CEE, while challenging the portrayal of this region as homogeneous and exclusively white.