To speak of whiteness is not to speak of particular people but of people caught up in a deformed building project aimed at bringing the world to its full maturity. What does maturity look like, maturity of mind and body, land and animal (use), landscape and building, family and government? Whiteness is a horrific answer to this question formed exactly at the site of Christian missions. So in this essay I want to explore whiteness as a deformed formation toward maturity, along the way to consider some of its affective (emotional) dimensions, and finally to suggest how we might begin to separate
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