Whiteness : an introduction / Steve Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Steve, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Racism.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-208) and index.

ISBN:

0415403634

0415403642

020394559X

9780415403634

9780415403641

9780203945599

OCLC:

80358978