The uses of whiteness: what sociologists working on Europe can draw from US research on whiteness
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01/04/2006
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Whiteness studies are trans-disciplinary, but here the focus is principally on sociology and social history. Firstly, I identify, elucidate and synthesize the major ways in which whiteness in this literature has hitherto been problematized, to provide a sociological view of the multidisciplinary work so far. Five interpretations are identified; whiteness as absence, as content, as a set of norms, as resources and as a contingent hierarchy. Secondly, I make some proposals regarding the whiteness problematic’s degree of pertinence to European settings, with a brief discussion of the Irish case. Finally, I argue that whiteness is useful if conceptualized in a way that sets it within the parameters of studies of racism. |
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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/7968/1/UWhitenessFINALx.pdf Garner, Steve J. (2006). The uses of whiteness: what sociologists working on Europe can draw from US research on whiteness. Sociology, 40 (2), pp. 257-275. |
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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/7968/ |
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Article PeerReviewed |