TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalmar,Ivan
TI  - White but Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt
SN  - 9781529213621
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Bristol University Press
KW  - Racism-Europe, Western
KW  - Racism-Europe, Eastern
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Front Cover -- White but not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables, and maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race, Illiberalism, Central Europe -- Race, illiberalism, Central Europe -- Partial privilege and the semi-periphery -- How this books fits in -- Awful East, awesome West? -- 1 How Eastern Europeans Became Less White -- 2 How Central Europeans Became Eastern European -- Anti-Slavism and German-Slavic rivalry -- Yalta -- After 1989 -- Conclusion -- 3 How Central Europeans Became Central European (Time and Time Again) -- Before the First World War: the German idea of Central Europe -- Mitteleuropa in the interwar period -- Kundera and the 'dissidents' -- The rise and fall of the Third Way -- The Visegrád Alliance -- 4 Central Europe: Half-Truths and Facts -- Half-Truth 1: Freedom and democracy have failed -- The Economist -- Freedom House -- Varieties of Democracy -- Reporters Without Borders -- Half-Truth 2: Corruption is beyond control -- Half-Truth 3: There are gangsters and prostitutes everywhere -- Half-Truth 4: People are surly and miserable -- Human Development Index -- Happiness Index -- Half-Truth 5: Poverty is rampant -- Gross domestic product -- Foreign investment -- Inequality -- Wages -- Half-Truth 6: Outmigration is depopulating the area -- 5 The Last of the White Men: Central Europe's White Innocence -- 6 'Have Eastern Europeans No Shame?' Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia in Central Europe -- Islamophobia without Muslims? -- From Islamophobia to homophobia -- 7 Imitators Spurned: Why the West Needs Central Europe to Stay in its Eastern European Place -- The 'Imitation Imperative' -- The roots of democracy in Central Europe -- Mimicry rejected: on capitalism and exclusion -- 8 'We Will Not Be a Colony!'; Effects of the 2008 financial crisis -- National capitalism -- Russia, China, and Central Europe -- Illiberals declaim against Western 'colonialism' -- 'We've never been colonizers!' -- So, is Central Europe responsible for colonialism? -- 9 Slavia Prague v. Glasgow Rangers: Lessons from a Football Match -- 'We will not kneel before you' -- Conclusion: When the Migrants Come -- Postscript: Confessions of a Canadian Central European -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
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