Moral Economy of Whiteness
Subtitle: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781138851726
Subjects: Whites; Equality; Great britain, race relations; Great britain, emigration and immigration
Description: "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 seen as the ideological glue binding this unfair system. People are thus retreating from Britishness into a more exclusive Englishness." --