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020 _a0415403634 (hbk.)
020 _a0415403642 (pbk.)
020 _a020394559X (ebk.)
020 _a9780415403634 (hbk.)
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082 _a305.8
_bG2W4
100 _aGarner, Steve,
_d1963-
245 _aWhiteness :
_ban introduction /
_cSteve Garner.
260 _aLondon ;
_bRoutledge,
_c2007.
_aNew York :
300 _aviii, 216 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.
505 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 _aWhites
_xRace identity.
650 _aRacism.
650 _aRace discrimination.
942 _cBK
999 _c744
_d744