“If I were you, what would I do?” —Whiteness Study on Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid, a contemporary Pakistani-origin novelist, engages in broadening the interpretation of race with rich themes and varied writing techniques. His latest novel The Last White Man（2022）takes the change of skin color as a pointcut and develops a narrative around the magical discoloration from white to black both individually and collectively. Hamid locates his perspective as an outsider, stepping out of the impasse of the black-white dichotomy and thinking about the future direction of race relations. By analyzing white ignorance, white privilege and hegemony presented in the novel, exposing and countering whiteness, interpreting the racial empathy generated by Hamid’s ‘white to black’, revealing the unjust racial relations between black and white races, and exposing the hidden rights and discourses controlled by the white man, it is intended to create the conditions for the realization of true racial equality.