Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire [electronic resource] : On Home Ground /
Tyler, K.author.
This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Frameworks, Fieldworks and Inspirations""; ""Part I: White Amnesia: White Middle-Class Ethnicities""; ""2 BrAsian 'Invasion' of White Suburban English Village Life""; ""3 The Racialisation of the Country, the City and the Forgetting of Empire""; ""Part II: Confronting Coloniality: White Working-Class Ethnicities""; ""4 The Questioning of Racism in a Former Coalmining Town""; ""5 Neighbourhood Activism and the Ambiguities of Anti-Racism in the City""; ""Part III: Postcolonial Genealogies""
""6 Slave Ancestries and the Inheritance of Interracial Identities""""7 The Co-Existence of Whiteness, Social Class and Coloniality in Britain and the USA""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnicity.
Anthropology.
Sociology, Urban.
Imperialism.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Anthropology.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Imperialism and Colonialism.