Moral Economy of Whiteness - Four Frames of Racializing Discourse

Based on extensive interviews, the author establishes four overlapping frames through which white English people currently understand immigration. These interpretations reflect national, racialised and classed identities. The themes derived from England generate numerous international points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the backlash against multiculturalism in the West.

List of contents

1. Four Frames of Racialising Discourse 2. ‘Hey White Boy!’: Identifications, Dis-Identifications, Representations 3. The ‘Neoliberal Postracial’ State 4. Classed Understandings 5. Unfairness: Why ‘Equality’ is a ‘Dirty Word’ 6. Political Correctness Gone Mad 7. From Repressed Englishness to the (Un)Finished Business of Empire 8. Impossible Integration 9. Political Uses of Whiteness in an International Context 10. Analysis and Conclusion: A Moral Economy of Whiteness and its Doxic Waste

About the author

Steve Garner is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, UK.

Summary

Based on extensive interviews, the author establishes four overlapping frames through which white English people currently understand immigration. These interpretations reflect national, racialised and classed identities. The themes derived from England generate numerous international points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the backlash against multiculturalism in the West.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Garner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2019
• EAN: 9781138493285
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49328-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Population and Demography, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples