This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.

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Katherine Ellinghaus is a Monash Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. ********Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. Jane Carey is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Melbourne.

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Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field / Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus * PART I: HISTORIANS APPROACHING THE STUDY OF WHITENESS * Whiteness and 'the Imperial Turn' / Angela Woollacott * The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication / Louise Newman * 'Whiteness,' Geopolitical Reconfiguration and the Settler Empire in Nineteenth Century Victorian Politics / Leigh Boucher * PART II: WHITENESS AS A TRANSNATIONAL COLONIAL PRODUCTION * Essay to be announced / Warwick Anderson * 'The Question of Miscegenation in the Politics of English Speaking Countries in the early Twentieth Century / Henry Reynolds * 'Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian land': Interrogating Intersections between whiteness and child rescue / Shurlee Swain, Margot Hillel and Belinda Sweeney * 'I followed England round the world': The Rise of Trans-imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionism, and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim / Penny Edmonds * PART III: WHITENESS AS A SETTLER COLONIAL IDENTITY * White is Wonderful: Emotional Conversion and Subjective Formation / Marilyn Lake * The Fabrication of White Homemaking: Louisa Meredith in Colonial Tasmania / Patricia Grimshaw and Ann Standish * Reading the Shadows of Whiteness: A Case of Racial Clarity on Queensland's Colonial Borderlands, 1880-1900 / Tracey Banivanua-Mar * The Deluded White Woman and the Expatriation of the White Child / Margaret Allen * PART IV: WHITENESS AND THE IMAGINING/MANAGING OF COLONIAL POPULATIONS * 'Woman's Objective - A Perfect Race': Whiteness, Eugenics and the Racial Anxieties of interwar Australia / Jane Carey * 'Born and Nurtured in Darkest Ignorance': White Imaginings of Aboriginal Maternity / Liz Conor * Re-thinking 'Squaw Men' and 'Pakeha-Maori': Legislating white masculinity in New Zealand and Canada, 1860-1900 / Angela Wanhalla * Into the White Man's Kingdom: Whiteness and Indigenous Assimilation Policiesin the United States and Australia, 1880s-1960s / Katherine Ellinghaus * Conclusions / Jane Carey, Leigh Boucher and Katherine Ellinghaus