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.
The author identifies hostels as sites of public and domestic violence, literal destruction and rebuilding, and as an important node in the spread of HIV/AIDS. He focuses on thirty black migrant women living in an East Rand hostel to map the everyday geographies of South Africa's time of change. By following the lives of these women, he describes spatialized forms of marginalization, impoverishment, infection and disempowerment.