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This master's thesis is exploring Växjö's history based on the dimension of critical race and whiteness studies, based on the aim of examining the intersection between municipal politics, local history, and the Swedish hegemonic whiteness. The theoretical point of departure is the periodization formulated by scholars Catrin Lundström and Tobias Hübinette, which they refer to as the white solidarity period (which lasted between 1968-2001) and which was characterized by color blindness as a dominant ideological discourse that characterized Sweden's relationship to the concept of race. The method is to choose a selection of formal decisions made by the Växjö municipal board between the period 1971-1999. I try to contextualize the content and also see how they reflect the periodization that Lundström and Hübinette claim. The result culminated in a historiography in which Växjö municipality was shown to have taken a series of decisions in the 1970s that reflected the introduction of the multicultural policy, something that in the 1990s culminated in a strong anti-racist commitment against racism and Nazism. In the final discussion, I argue for the importance of continued research on the relationship between municipal politics, local history, and critical race and whiteness studies.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om vithetskritik, med utgångspunkt i Stig Wessléns tre kortdokumentärer Med Stig Wesslén i Lapplandsfjällen (1940), Med lapparna till fjälls (1944), samt Vårvinterrajden (1944). Analysen består av en genomgående närläsning av dessa, utifrån vithetskritiska infallsvinklar som formulerats av en rad olika forskare och med hjälp av begrepp som formulerats av Nationella Sekretariatet för Genusforskning. Uppsatsen består av ett delfokus på filmarkivets visning av dessa. Det finns inga direkta slutsatser som så, men analysen lägger grund för en viktig diskussion kring relationen mellan vithet och filmmediet i en vidare bemärkelse. I slutändan argumenterar jag för vikten av fortsatt forskning på områden inom filmvetenskapen, med förslag på diverse tidsnedslag.