2025/08/01 by Yekani, Elahe Haschemi, Michaelis, Beatrice
#German feminism #Occidentalism #Whiteness #hegemonic position
paper · doi:10.18716/ojs/gefo/2006.2983
In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: This much-needed collection of German- and English-language essays on Critical Whiteness Studies combines different disciplinary and thematic approaches to the topic and explores this relatively new field in German academia. The articles - all of them well-structured and of readable length - interrogate a number of important (political) questions: What are the blind spots of German feminism when confronted with its own hegemonic position? Can Critical Whiteness Studies serve as a tool to approach the structural racisms that so are so easily neglected when racism is time and again only equated with right wing extremism and Neo-Nazi brutality? And how can we clarify the fact that race is not something that applies only to racially and ethnically marked people, but has a lot to do with Whiteness and Occidentalism?