White Identities

Simon Clarke is Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He is author of several books including Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Macmillan, 2003), White Identities (Pluto, 2009) and From Enlightenment to Risk (Macmillan, 2005). He is editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.Steve Garner is Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. Throughout his academic career he has been engaged with questions such as 'What does 'race' mean?', 'How does racism work?', and 'How can racial equality be achieved?' He is the author of Racism in the Irish Experience (Pluto, 2003), Whiteness (Routledge, 2007) and Racisms (Sage, 2009).

• 1. Researching 'Whiteness': An Introduction2. Whiteness Studies in the Context of the USA3. Empirical research into white racialised identities in Britain4. Britishness5. Whiteness and Post-Imperial Britain6. Psycho-Social Interpretations of Cultural Identity: constructing the white 'we'7. Media Representations: constructing the 'not white' Other8. Whiteness, Home and Community 9. Researching Whiteness: Psycho-Social Methodologies10. ConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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