A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse

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. -- 10 Analysis And Conclusion: A Moral Economy Of Whiteness And Its Doxic Wasteappendices -- References -- Index. Steve Garner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.