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Whiteness - An Introduction (Paperback, New Ed)
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Whiteness - An Introduction (Paperback, New Ed)
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What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social
sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this
book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand
contemporary societies. If one of sociology's objectives is to make
the familiar unfamiliar in order to gain heightened understanding,
then whiteness offers a perfect opportunity to do so. Leaning
firstly on the North American corpus, this key book critically
engages with writings on the formation of white identities in
Britain, Ireland and the Americas, using multidisciplinary sources.
Empirical work done in the UK, including the author's own, is
developed in order to suggest how whiteness functions in Britain.
Bringing an emphasis on empirical work to a heavily theorized area,
this important text synthesizes and reviews existing work,
incorporates multidisciplinary sources of interest to those outside
the sociology sphere, and features concise chapters which will
engage undergraduates. Garner deftly argues that whiteness is a
multifaceted, contingent and fluid identity, and that it must be
incorporated into any contemporary understandings of racism as a
system of power relationships in both its local and global forms.
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