Steve Garner

Whiteness (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

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: 9781134140602
• Artikelnr.: 43070786

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