| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 11 |
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Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 11.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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 |
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10 Analysis and conclusion: a moral economy of whiteness and its doxic wasteAppendices -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
A Moral Economy of Whiteness presents a working model for understanding the main ways in which white UK people make 'race' through talking about immigration in the twenty-first century. Based on extensive empirical interviews, Steve Garner establishes four overlapping frames through which white English people understand immigration. This comprises a narrative of unequal treatment, where 'equality' is a 'dirty word' because it is seen as an agenda for redistributing resources to 'undeserving' ethnic minorities, 'non-integrating' migrants and unproductive white people. Political correctness is s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 20, 2015) |
| Subject |
White people -- Great Britain
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Equality -- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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White people.
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317529453 |
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1317529456 |
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9781315723938 |
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131572393X |
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9781317529439 |
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131752943X |
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9781317529446 |
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1317529448 |
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9781138493285 |
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1138493287 |
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