TY - BOOK AU - Garner, Steve, TI - Whiteness: an introduction SN - 0415403634 (hbk.) U1 - 305.8 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Whites KW - Race identity KW - Racism KW - Race discrimination N1 - 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 ER -