Off White - Anikó Imre and James Mark on Eastern Europe in the Global History of Race

In this conversation, Anikó Imre and James Mark – co-editors, with Catherine Baker and Bogdan Iacob, of the new volume Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race – present the ambiguities of East Europeans’ whiteness and the major implications such ambiguities have had; analyze how the “two halves of Europe” compare when it comes to questions of white supremacy; explicate what their historical approach to nation building in Eastern Europe has yielded; discuss the place and role of East Europeans in global rightist networks today; and reflect on how they see their own role as mediators between political cultures and different scholarly traditions.

Anikó Imre is a Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

James Mark is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter.

Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race has been edited by Catherine Baker, Bogdan Iacob, Anikó Imre, and James Mark. It is published by Manchester University Press.