Steve Garner

Whiteness (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies, bringing an emphasis on empirical work to a heavily theorized area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134140596
• Artikelnr.: 38260383

Autorenporträt

Steve Garner is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has published on racism, immigration, whiteness and colonialism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Whiteness as Terror and Supremacy 2. Whiteness as a Kind of Absence 3. Whiteness as Values, Norms and Cultural Capital 4. Whiteness as Contingent Hierarchies 5. Whiteness in the Caribbean and Latin America 6. Whiteness at the Margins 7. How the Irish Became White (Again) 8. Asylumgration: The Others Blur 9. Racial Purity, Integration and the Idea of Home. Conclusion: In Defence of the Whiteness Problematic

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Introduction 1. Whiteness as Terror and Supremacy 2. Whiteness as a Kind of
Absence 3. Whiteness as Values, Norms and Cultural Capital 4. Whiteness as
Contingent Hierarchies 5. Whiteness in the Caribbean and Latin America 6.
Whiteness at the Margins 7. How the Irish Became White (Again) 8.
Asylumgration: The Others Blur 9. Racial Purity, Integration and the Idea
of Home. Conclusion: In Defence of the Whiteness Problematic

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"Garner's book on whiteness is a very powerful tool which I will use as a critical lens in which to understand racism and its relational systems of subordination and oppression as sustained through the construction of whiteness."- Howard Johnson, Secondary School Teacher

"Garner's book on whiteness is a very powerful tool which I will use as a critical lens in which to understand racism and its relational systems of subordination and oppression as sustained through the construction of whiteness."- Howard Johnson, Secondary School Teacher