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- Title
The Uses of Whiteness: What Sociologists Working on Europe Can Draw from US Research on Whiteness.
- Authors
Garner, Steve
- 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.
- Subjects
IRELAND; EUROPE; UNITED States; WHITE people; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences; RACE; SOCIAL history; RACISM
- Publication
Sociology, 2006, Vol 40, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038506062032