Introduction: affectivity as a lens to racial formations in the Nordic countries, Kathrine Vitus and Rikke Andreassen . Part I How is Race Politicised through Affects?: Politics of irony as the emerging sensibility of the anti-immigrant debate, Kaarina Nikunen ; If it had been a muslim: affectivity and race in Danish journalists' reflections on making news on terror, Asta Smedegaard Nielsen ; The racial grammar of Swedish higher education and research policy: the limits and conditions of researching race in a colour-blind context, Tobias Hübinette and Paula Mählck . Part II How Does Race Produce Affects?: 'And then we do it in Norway': learning leadership through affective contact zones, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen and Dorthe Staunæs ; Nordic colour-blindness and Nella Larsen, Rikke Andreassen ; Disturbance and celebration of Josephine Baker in Copenhagen 1928: emotional constructions of whiteness, Marlene Spanger . Part III How is Race Affectively Experienced?: Feeling at loss: affect, whiteness and masculinity in the immediate aftermath of Norway's terror, Stine H. Bang Svendsen ; The affectivity of racism: enjoyment and disgust in young people's film, Kathrine Vitus ; Two journeys into research on difference in a Nordic context: a collaborative auto-ethnography, Henry Mainsah and Lin Proitz ; Doing 'feelwork': reflections on whiteness and methodological challenges in research on queer partner migration, Sara Ahlstedt . Index.