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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... My Back 50 Tower Hamlets 52, 61 trachoma 106 Travellers 11, 109; in Britain 114–17; Irish Travellers 110–14, 131, 134, 138–9; see also Gypsy-Travellers Trinidad 82 Turkey 71 Tutsis 178 Twinam, Ann 89, 92 Tyler, Katherine Index 215.
An Introduction Steve Garner. Turkey 71 Tutsis 178 Twinam, Ann 89, 92 Tyler, Katherine 45, 57, 159, 163, 175 UK see Britain underclass 73–4, 116 UNHCR 136–7 unions 17, 30, 69–70, 106, 125 United Force, The 86 United Nations 178–9 Uruguay ...
Contents
The political stakes of using whiteness | 1 |
1 Whiteness as terror and supremacy | 13 |
2 Whiteness as a kind of absence | 34 |
3 Whiteness as values norms and cultural capital | 48 |
4 Whiteness as contingent hierarchies | 63 |
5 Whiteness in the Caribbean and Latin America | 80 |
6 Whiteness at the margins | 99 |
7 How the Irish became White again | 120 |
the Others blur | 136 |
9 Racial purity integration and the idea of home | 154 |
In defence of the whiteness problematic | 174 |
Notes | 181 |
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