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Garner, Steve
(2006).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038506062032
URL: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/40/2/257.abstract
Abstract
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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- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1469-8684
- Keywords
- identities; racism; whiteness; racialisation; race; USA
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- Steve Garner