Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race

This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identities, and of the region’s current status as a global stronghold of unapologetic white, Christian nationalisms. Contributions address the pivotal role of whiteness in international diplomacy, geographical exploration, media cultures, music, intellectual discourses, academic theories, everyday language and banal nationalism’s many avenues of expressions. The book offers new paradigms for understanding the relationships among racial capitalism, populism, economic peripherality and race.

Catherine Baker is Reader in 20th-Century History at the University of Hull.
Bogdan C. Iacob is Researcher at the Institute of History, Romanian Academy.
Anikó Imre is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.