Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire

1. Front Matter

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2. Frameworks, Fieldworks and Inspirations

   1. Frameworks, Fieldworks and Inspirations

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 1-35

3. White Amnesia: White Middle-Class Ethnicities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. BrAsian ‘Invasion’ of White Suburban English Village Life

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 39-78

   3. The Racialisation of the Country, the City and the Forgetting of Empire

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 79-107

4. Confronting Coloniality: White Working-Class Ethnicities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The Questioning of Racism in a Former Coalmining Town

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 111-145

   3. Neighbourhood Activism and the Ambiguities of Anti-Racism in the City

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 146-171

5. Postcolonial Genealogies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Slave Ancestries and the Inheritance of Interracial Identities

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 175-205

   3. The Co-Existence of Whiteness, Social Class and Coloniality in Britain and the USA

      • Katharine Tyler

      Pages 206-222

6. Back Matter

   Pages 223-241

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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.

• coloniality
• English
• Irish Republican Army (IRA)
• state

• University of Surrey, UK

  Katharine Tyler

KATHARINE TYLER Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. Her publications include Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference (edited with Bo Petersson).

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