Whiteness: An IntroductionWhat is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives is to make the familiar unfamiliar in order to gain heightened understanding, then whiteness offers a perfect opportunity to do so. Leaning firstly on the North American corpus, this key book critically engages with writings on the formation of white identities in Britain, Ireland and the Americas, using multidisciplinary sources. Empirical work done in the UK, including the author's own, is developed in order to suggest how whiteness functions in Britain. Bringing an emphasis on empirical work to a heavily theorized area, this important text synthesizes and reviews existing work, incorporates multidisciplinary sources of interest to those outside the sociology sphere, and features concise chapters which will engage undergraduates. Garner deftly argues that whiteness is a multifaceted, contingent and fluid identity, and that it must be incorporated into any contemporary understandings of racism as a system of power relationships in both its local and global forms. |
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... racism as asystem ofpower relationships.This innovative book: providesa critical review of key themes for the multidisciplinary literature on whiteness; utilisesabalanced combination of theory, existing empirical dataandnew ...
... Racism.3. Race discrimination. I. Title. HT1575.G37 2007 305.8 –dc23 2007002177 ISBN 020394559X Master ebookISBN ISBN10: 0–415–40363–4 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–40364–2 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–94559–x (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–40363–4 (hbk) ISBN13 ...
... Racism inthe Irish Experience (RIE),done inthe period 1998–2003, raised alot of the questions,without providing many answers, andIrealised that it couldnot satisfactorily contain these. I gave apaper at a conference in March 2004, which ...
... racism atBristolUWE havealso contributed tothis work,in variousways. Of course, noonewrites an introductory text withoutstanding on the proverbial shoulders of giants, who are, in this case,inter alia: James Baldwin, W.E.B.Du Bois, Toni ...
... racism. Since then, after conducting qualitative research, and through reading through and talking aroundissuesthat using whiteness throws up, I have realised that whenwe talkaboutthis topicwedoso from points of knowledge and ...