{"id":29439,"date":"2013-03-10T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T05:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29439"},"modified":"2013-03-10T05:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T05:16:43","slug":"historicising-whiteness-from-the-case-of-late-colonial-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29439","title":{"rendered":"Historicising Whiteness: From the Case of Late Colonial India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/files\/ejournalfiles\/85SatoshiMizutani.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Historicising Whiteness: From the Case of Late Colonial India<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/ejournal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race and Whiteness Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/ejournal\/?id=26\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 1<\/a> (2006) Whiteness and the Horizons of Race<\/p>\n<p><strong>Satoshi Mizutani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">critical race<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">whiteness studies<\/a> have disseminated the now-familiar notion that whiteness is not a given but a social construct. The idea, however, is yet to be fully explored, with many untouched areas and methodologies of potential importance. This paper is a humble attempt to make a contribution to the field from the perspective of colonial history. Drawing on a historical case study on British Indian society from the late nineteenth century onwards, it firstly focuses on the oft-neglected social world of white colonials of \u2018respectable\u2019 standing, enquiring what defined their whiteness and under what material conditions it was to be acquired. This is to be followed by an examination of how these whites differentiated themselves from, and in turn controlled the lives of, the so-called \u2018domiciled\u2019 population, members of which were of white descent, permanently based in India, often impoverished and frequently (if not always) racially mixed. Such a two-level approach to the people of white descent is to reveal that the colonial invention of whiteness depended both on the securing of a \u2018bourgeois\u2019 social milieu for middle-class whites and on the vigilant control of the impoverished domiciled. The paper shows the complex ways in which the insidiously unsound nature of such a construction of whiteness repeatedly posed a political challenge to the colonial racial order. The case of colonial India may be taken as a vivid example of how whiteness may come charged with inevitable self contradictions and ambiguities, and with those counter-measures that seek to contain the socio-political unrest resulting there from.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire\u00a0article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrawsa.org.au\/files\/ejournalfiles\/85SatoshiMizutani.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historicising Whiteness: From the Case of Late Colonial India Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 2, Number 1 (2006) Whiteness and the Horizons of Race Satoshi Mizutani It has been a while since critical race and whiteness studies have disseminated the now-familiar notion that whiteness is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,8],"tags":[13952,13953,1351,1350],"class_list":["post-29439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-australian-critical-race-and-whiteness-studies-association","tag-critical-race-and-whiteness-studies","tag-india","tag-satoshi-mizutani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}