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Becoming White?

Apostolos Andrikopoulos(author)

Chapter of: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe(pp. 105–116)

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Title	Becoming White?
Contributor	Apostolos Andrikopoulos(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.11
Landing page	https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.11
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright	Apostolos Andrikopoulos
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Published on	2023-05-11
Long abstract	In this autobiographical essay, I explore two parallel processes that are somehow interconnected: the first is the shift in my own understanding of race throughout my life, from my formative years in Greece until my recent years in the Netherlands, where I began an academic career as an anthropologist. The second is my own racialization as ‘white’ since I moved to the Netherlands and became an academic. After I outline what were the relevant categories of difference in the small city of Greece where I grew up., I ask how appropriate it is to apply the category of ‘white’ to migrant scholars whose pathway to academia started in contexts in which whiteness had different meanings or was less significant as a marker of privilege.
Page range	pp. 105–116
Print length	12 pages
Language	English (Original)

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Apostolos Andrikopoulos

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of Amsterdam

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4672-777X

References

Georgios Agelopoulos, ‘Contested territories and the quest for ethnology: People and places in Izmir 1919–1922’, in Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey, edited by N. Diamantouros, T. Dragonas, and C. Keyder (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010), pp. 181–191.
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, ‘Hospitality and immigration in a Greek urban neighborhood: An ethnography of mimesis’, City & Society, 29/2 (2017a): 281–304. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12127
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Argonauts of West Africa: Migration, citizenship and kinship dynamics in a changing Europe, PhD dissertation (University of Amsterdam, 2017b).
Alexandra Bakalaki, ‘L’envie, moteur de l’imitation,’ Ethnologie Française, 35/2 (2005): 317–327. https://doi.org/10.3917/ethn.052.0317
Akosua Darkwah and Ampofo Adomako, ‘Race, gender and global love: Non-Ghanaian wives, insiders or outsiders in Ghana?’ International Journal of Sociology of the Family (2008): 187–208.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
Michael Herzfeld, ‘The absence presence: Discourses of crypto-colonialism’, The South Atlantic Quarterly 101/4 (2002): 899–926. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-4-899
Wanlov the Kubolor, ‘Obroni, a history,’ Africa is a Country (2015). https://africasacountry.com/2015/03/whitehistorymonth-obroni-a-history
Gloria Wekker, Rosalba Icaza, Hans Jansen, Marieke Slootman, and Rolando Vázquez, Let’s Do Diversity: Report of the Diversity Commission, University of Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam, 2016).

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In this autobiographical essay, I explore two parallel processes that are somehow interconnected: the first is the shift in my own understanding of race throughout my life, from my formative years in Greece until my recent years in the Netherlands, where I began an academic career as an anthropologist. The second is my own racialization as ‘white’ since I moved to the Netherlands and became an academic. After I outline what were the relevant categories of difference in the small city of Greece where I grew up., I ask how appropriate it is to apply the category of ‘white’ to migrant scholars whose pathway to academia started in contexts in which whiteness had different meanings or was less significant as a marker of privilege.