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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 45 avhandlingar innehållade ordet whiteness.
1. Attaining Whiteness : A Sociological Study of Race and Racialization in Russia
Sammanfattning : Attaining Whiteness is the first book-length sociological study of how ideas about race resonate in post-Soviet Russia. The book charts how tropes of self, hybridity, and maturity constitute important symbolic vehicles for applying the idea of race to the drawing of differences. LÄS MER
2. Whiteness and Fluorescence in Layered Paper and Board : Perception and Optical Modelling
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about modelling and predicting the perceived whiteness of plain paper from the paper composition, including fluorescent whitening agents. This involves psychophysical modelling of perceived whiteness from measurable light reflectance properties, and physical modelling of light scattering and fluorescence from the paper composition. LÄS MER
3. Whiteness and Fluorescence in Paper : Perception and Optical Modelling
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about modelling and predicting the perceived whiteness of plain paper from the paper composition, including fluorescent whitening agents. This includes psycho-physical modelling of perceived whiteness from measurable light reflectance properties, and physical modelling of light scattering and fluorescence from the paper composition. LÄS MER
4. Vithetens koagulerade hjärta. Om avkoloniserande läsningars möjlighet : The Congealed Heart of Whiteness. On the Possibility of Decolonial Readings
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to read three Swedish-language works of literary fiction from the 20th century in a decolonising way in order to provide insights into what the development of such a reading style entails. With this goal in mind, I make use of theoretical and methodological perspectives taken from decolonial studies, indigenous studies, neomaterialism and critical race- and whiteness studies. LÄS MER
5. Vithet i svensk spelfilm 1989-2010
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes whiteness in Swedish fiction films between 1989 and 2010. It examines the relationship between whiteness and nation in Sweden, and whiteness as a national Swedish symbol and how this is reformulated at different times in history. LÄS MER