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- Title
Approaching Texts of Not-Quiteness: Reading Race, Whiteness, and In/Visibility in Nordic Culture.
- Authors
Roos, Liina-Ly
- Abstract
She also suggests that the relationship between Finland and Sweden could be called postcolonial or at least semi-postcolonial, while the colonial relationship between Finland and the Sápmi lands or that between Sweden and the Sápmi lands is still ongoing. These are songs in Finnish that were originally produced in 1974 on the album Siirtolaisen tie - Ruotsinsuomalaisten lauluja (The Migrant's Way - Songs of Sweden Finns) but were recorded for this film by the new generation of Sweden Finnish musicians. These are multidirectional hierarchies in that the intra-Nordic migrants/minorities see themselves as having less visibility and, therefore, agency within the dominant society than migrants of color, but at the same time, distance themselves from them as well as from other white migrants/minorities who have historically been seen as not quite as white either. Alakoski does not use the word "race" in her essay, instead wondering about the different attitudes regarding ethnicity, even though she implies that the non-white Swede from Afghanistan is somehow "more migrant" than the other two groups of white people, Swedes with a Finnish background, and Swedes with a Polish background, in Sweden. In her attempts to articulate the struggles of Finnish-speakers in Sweden that tend to be unnoticed in contemporary awareness and studies of migration, as a white author in Sweden, Alakoski herself is haunted by the specters of race.
- Subjects
RACE; COSMOPOLITANISM; SHAME; CROSS-cultural studies; SOCIAL attitudes; PEOPLE of color; GENDER inequality; CULTURE; ETHNICITY
- Publication
Scandinavian Studies, 2023, Vol 95, Issue 3, p318
- ISSN
0036-5637
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/21638195.95.3.02