ABSTRACT

Studying the ways whiteness contorts across geographies is important to understanding the weaknesses of racial paradigms that enable domination and dispossession. This paper analyzes how whiteness is discursively revised and re-affirmed in contemporary spaces of transit by studying the online personal blogs of white Americans who volunteered as classroom teachers in Namibia. It reviews how the racialized realities of Namibia breach the volunteers’ white epistemologies, but ultimately result in the retrenching of white supremacy. The volunteers ignore the implications of racism even as they deploy racialized terminology and equate whiteness with celebrity, simplifying the complex ways whiteness is read in post-colonial Africa.

摘要

研究白人在不同地区的扭曲方式对于理解导致统治和剥夺的种族范式的弱点很重要。本文通过研究在纳米比亚志愿担任课堂教师的美国白人的在线个人博客，分析了白人如何在当代交通空间中被话语修正和重申。它回顾了纳米比亚的种族化现实如何违反志愿者的白人认识论，但最终导致白人至上的缩减。志愿者们忽略了种族主义的影响，即使他们使用了种族化的术语并将白人与名人等同起来，简化了后殖民时代非洲解读白人的复杂方式。