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.
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.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038506062032 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | identities,racism,whiteness,racialisation |
Publication ISSN: | 1469-8684 |
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2024 08:07 |
Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2010 11:16 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2006-04 |
Authors: |
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