Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region

’This timely cross-disciplinary volume poses a robust challenge to the myth of Nordic exceptionalism and its reiterated associations with colonial racism. It also makes a strong plea for the inclusion of the Nordic countries in postcolonial scholarship, albeit in a suitably localized and internally differentiated form.’ Graham Huggan, University of Leeds, UK ’A scholarly and thoughtful collection unified by a critical questioning of prevalent and powerful political and cultural claims to Nordic exceptionalism. Undermining this narrative, the book's insistence on the analytics of racism is a welcome riposte to political and academic desires to announce a post-racial era, and its extension of the remit of postcolonial critique repudiates a similar drive to expunge the living legacies of the colonial past.’ Gavan Titley, NUI Maynooth, Ireland 'In a corner of the world, safely hidden away from the cruelties of colonialism, the culturally homogenous people of the Nordic countries have long taken pride in their neutrality on the political scene. This is a popular description of the Nordic region, but is it really a sustainable one? Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region. Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir and Lars Jensen, provides an answer to that question. ... the volume brings an important contribution to a debate that is hopefully only beginning.' Nordic Journal of Migration Research