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Whites writing whiteness: letters, domestic figurations and representations of whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s (Professorial Fellowship)
The whites writing whiteness (WWW) research is shaped by the social theory of Norbert Elias and involves a Qualitative Longitudinal Research (QLR) historical sociology investigation of social change and the processes of racialisation in South Africa. WWW has developed from the ESRC-funded Olive Schreiner Letters Project; for details on the letters and publications of this key feminist theorist, see the Olive Schreiner Letters Online at http://www.oliveschreiner.org.