Whiteness out of place

White parents' encounters with local Chinese schooling in post-colonial Hong Kong

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3345145
AutoresJulian M Groves (0000-0001-7948-499X, Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, autor correspondente), Peter O’connor (0000-0003-4245-3473), Paul O’connor (0000-0003-0058-6905, Lingnan University)
Ano2020
Volume68
Fascículo1
Páginas209-224
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026119865861
OpenAlexW2964298591
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas19

We identify a missing narrative about the place of whiteness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Using an anthropological framework developed by Mary Douglas, we show how white migrants who try to integrate their children into local Cantonese medium of instruction schools are challenged by recurring obstacles that highlight their whiteness and signal them as 'matter out of place' by transgressing colonial assumptions about whiteness in the territory. In adopting this framework, we reorient the current focus of whiteness studies away from examining the strategies and performances employed by white migrants in the production of whiteness to the regulation of whiteness by the social order. By identifying the absence of an appropriate narrative for these parents in the local education system, we highlight not just the continuity of colonial constructs of whiteness, but also the constraints upon those who try to escape them

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy