by Jacob Henry
2022
“ tudying 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. “
Jacob Henry (2022) Whiteness in transit: the racialized geographies of international volunteering, Social & Cultural Geography, 23:7, 1007-1023, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2020.1861642
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