Whiteness : an introduction /
Steve Garner.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- viii, 216 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.
Introduction : the political stakes of using whiteness -- Whiteness as terror and supremacy -- Whiteness as a kind of absence -- Whiteness as values, norms and cultural capital -- Whiteness as contingent hierarchies -- Whiteness in the Caribbean and Latin America -- Whiteness at the margins -- How the Irish became white (again) -- `Asylumgration` : the others blur -- Racial purity, integration and the idea of home -- Conclusion : in defence of the whiteness problematic.