Who Feels at Home? Whiteness and the Politics of Belonging in the Flemish Soap Opera Thuis.
Despite concerted efforts to move towards an inclusive, hybrid and intercultural identity, discourses about “Flemishness” today tend to be dominated by “adaptation” and an “Us-Them” ideology. Within these discourses race remains largely unnamed and—instead of skin colour—notions of citizenship, nati...
| Publicado en: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 48 - 67 |
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