Special on whiteness. Next to decentralization and historicalization of 'whiteness' an intersectional detection of an structural and symbolic meaning. With the following articles: 'Nicht Weiss Weiss Nicht: Überschneidungen zwischen Critical Whiteness Studies and feministischer Theorie' by Hanna Hacker: 'Denying the Coloured Mother': Gender and Race in South Africa' by Natasha Distiller and Meg Samuelson: 'Emanzipation als koloniale Fiktion: Zur sozialen Position Weisser Frauen in den deutschen Kolonien': 'Dis/Connecting Whiteness: Biographical Perspectives on Race, Class, Masculinity and Sexuality in Britain c. 1850-1930' by T.G. Ashplant: 'Geschichte, Sprache, Symptombildung: Anmerkungen zu neueren Arbeiten zur Rassen- und Geschlechterpolitik des Nationalsozialismus' by Johanna Gehmacher.
Born in Paris but having grown up in Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject