Table of Contents

Contents

List of plates

Acknowledgements

Looking into the light: Whiteness, racism and regimes of representation

Maxime Cervulle

Introduction

1 The matter of whiteness

2 Coloured white, not coloured

3 The light of the world

4 The white man’s muscles

5 ‘There’s nothing I can do! Nothing!’

6 White death

Notes

Bibliographies

Index

About the Author

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus at King’s College London and Professorial Fellow at St Andrews University. He has written on stars, entertainment and representation and lesbian and gay culture. He is the author of In the Space of a Song (2011), Pastiche (2007), Now You See It (1990) and Heavenly Bodies (1986).


Maxime Cervulle is Lecturer of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Paris 8 and at the Centre d’études sur les médias, les technologies et l’internationalisation (CEMTI). He is the author of Dans le blanc des yeux: Diversité, racisme et médias (2013) and the co-author of Cultural Studies: Théories et méthodes (2015) and Homo exoticus: Race, classe et critique queer (2010).