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Whiteness : an introduction / Steve Garner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Routledge, 2007. New York :Description: viii, 216 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415403634 (hbk.)
  • 0415403642 (pbk.)
  • 020394559X (ebk.)
  • 9780415403634 (hbk.)
  • 9780415403641 (pbk.)
  • 9780203945599 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 G2W4
Contents:
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.
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305.8 FEN Ethnicity 305.8 FEN Ethnicity 305.8 GAB Racism, culture, markets / 305.8 GAR Whiteness : 305.8 GAR Whiteness : 305.8 GHA Violence : 305.8 GOL Racist culture :

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.

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