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Author Tyler, Katharine, 1973-

Title Whiteness, class and the legacies of empire : on home ground / by Katharine Tyler, University of Surrey, UK
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Contents Frameworks, fieldworks and inspirations -- Part I. White amnesia : white middle-class ethnicities. BrAsian 'invasion' of white suburban English village life -- The racialisation of the country, the city and the forgetting of empire -- Part II. Confronting coloniality : white working-class ethnicities. The questioning of racism in a former coalmining town -- Neighbourhood activism and the ambiguities of anti-racism in the city -- Part III. Postcolonial genealogies. Slave ancestries and the inheritance of interracial identities -- The co-existence of whiteness, social class and coloniality in Britain and the USA
Summary What has Britain's inglorious history of colonial exploitation got to do with the tranquil, green and pleasant environment of the village community that is typically taken to represent the quintessence of Englishness? Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire is a personally mediated, reflexive ethnography of the historically influenced, geographically situated, embodied, classed and racially differentiated constitution of contemporary urban and suburban identities. It is grounded in the author's experience of the ways in which social identity is constructed and maintained via her ethnography of a village-like community, a post-industrial town and an inner-city locale, all of which are situated within close proximity to one another. The central focus is on how it is that White ethnicity is rendered invisible. What comes to light is a picture of contemporary people's conceptions of themselves conditioned by, and deriving from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject White people -- Race identity -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
National characteristics, British -- History -- 21st century
Ethnic groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
White people -- England -- Leicestershire -- Case studies
Colonialism & imperialism.
Urban communities.
Social classes.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
History.
Ethnic groups
Ethnic relations
National characteristics, British
Race relations
White people
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century
Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 21st century
Subject England -- Leicestershire
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230390294
0230390293
1280584734
9781280584732
9786613614568
6613614564
Other Titles On home ground