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The Uses of Whiteness: What Sociologists Working on Europe Can Draw from US Research on Whiteness.
- Source :
- Sociology; Apr2006, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p257-275, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WHITE people
SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL sciences
RACE
SOCIAL history
RACISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380385
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20737309
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038506062032