The shattered portrait of whiteness: race and fiction in The Last Whit Man

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2025.215113

Keywords:

whiteness, literature, race relations

Abstract

This review seeks to highlight in the recently published book The Last White Man (2023), by the Pakistani intellectual and writer Mohsin Hamid - the debate on power relations and ethnic-racial relations, against the backdrop of whiteness and critical studies on race . From the review, it will seek to show the relevant issues in line between the field of studies on whiteness and literature.

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Author Biography

  • Anderson dos Santos Cordeiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
    Graduated in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Paraíba - member of ARIADNE - Group of studies and research in Brazilian Social and Political Thought. His areas of interest are: Brazilian sociology, ethnic-racial relations, black intellectuals and studies on whiteness. Contact email: andersondsc97@gmail.com

     

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HAMID, Mohsin. O último homem branco. Tradução: José Geraldo Couto. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2023.

KILOMBA, Grada. Memórias da plantação: episódios de racismo cotidiano. Editora Cobogó, 2020.

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SOARES, Eliane Veras. Embora lidando com literatura, você está fazendo sociologia. Civitas -Revista de Ciências Sociais, v. 14, p. 81-92, 2020. Disponível em:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/civitas/article/view/16183/10960. Acesso em 04 ago, 2023.

Published

2025-08-01

How to Cite

Cordeiro, A. dos S. (2025). The shattered portrait of whiteness: race and fiction in The Last Whit Man. Plural, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2025.215113