Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire

Tyler, Katharine

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“…The "motifs of Empire" swept across English society, Anderson argued, and "set" its "ideological horizons" (1964,(34)(35). The racializing capacities of Englishness were further developed in the moment of decolonization: the arrival of migrants from India and the Caribbean was marked by a re-imagining of the nation in which both England and Britain were defined by a shared cross-class allegiance to whiteness (Knowles 2008;Tyler 2012;Virdee 2014). It was in this vortex that English nationalism derived the dimensions and referents that would define it in the decades to come, and they have come into view in the blowback of Brexit and its racializing consequences.…”

Section: Englishness: Empire Decline and Class Decompositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Virdee

McGeever

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the financial and political crisis within which Brexit occurred with a specific attentiveness to race and racism. Brexit and its aftermath have been overdetermined by racism, including racist violence. We suggest that the Leave campaign secured its victory by bringing together two contradictory but inter-locking visions. The first comprises an imperial longing to restore Britain's place in the world as primus inter pares that occludes any coming to terms with the corrosive legacies of colonial conquest and racist subjugation. The second takes the form of an insular, Powellite narrative of island retreat from a "globalizing" world, one that is no longer recognizably "British". Further, the article argues that an invisible driver of the Brexit vote and its racist aftermath has been a politicization of Englishness. We conclude by outlining some resources of hope that could potentially help to negotiate the current emergency.

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Section: Englishness: Empire Decline and Class Decompositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Virdee

McGeever

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

292

237

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“…Although casting Hudson in the film was a welcomed departure from an all-white cast, her character Louise was still on the margins of the plot. dominant white upper and middle classes (Lawler, 1999;Tyler, 2012). The 'mass produced images of idealised thin femininity' (Hodge, 2014, p. 76) is the medium through which the discourse of white privilege is disseminated.…”

Section: Gender and The Privileged White Aestheticmentioning

confidence: 98%

Colluding with Neo-Liberalism: Post-Feminist Subjectivities, Whiteness and Expressions of Entitlement

Wilkes¹

2015

Feminist Review

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This discussion contributes to the ongoing debates regarding the (re)sexualisation of female bodies in popular and visual culture. Visual texts display the upper middle-class white female as the carrier of mainstream neo-liberal values in Western societies, and the success of this approach is the twinning of the culture of individualism, self-interest and market values with feminist vocabularies; namely, choice, freedom and independence. Drawing on a broad feminist scholarship that includes discussions on the influence of the HBO series Sex and the City, semiotic analysis is combined with intersectionality to gain an understanding of how gender, class and sexuality shape and reinforce whiteness as entitled to luxury in an advertising campaign for Michael Kors luxury goods. Contemporary representations have expanded to include representations of affluent women who appear to have it all. These new post-feminist subjectivities promote an aesthetic of wealth, to display privileged whiteness, heterosexuality, normative Western beauty ideals and individualism. An intersectional approach reveals the apparent neutrality of neo-liberal values as being an expression of whiteness, specifically in representations of white women as economically independent neoliberal subjects who display their status through the conspicuous consumption of luxury brands.

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“…While this is likely to be partly due to the problems of the setting, as discussed above, it is also possible that potential participants were somewhat reluctant to enter into a conversation about race-this is still a difficult conversation and tricky to navigate (Tyler, 2012). Again, this is one of the reasons why we chose the term 'multiculturalism' to ask in our question rather than 'race' or 'ethnicity' as this is often used as a stand in for these more politically-charged terms.…”

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“…On the one hand, therefore, we expected to see people from a range of ethnicities both attending the wedding show as consumers, and there as business owners. On the other hand, we were also cognisant that where there is a high level of geographical ethnic diversity, there also tends to be a high degree of segregation and racism (Tyler, 2012).…”

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Researching Race in a White Space: Negotiating Interviews at White-Wedding Shows in England

Carter¹,

Chatterjee²

2018

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Discipline: D3 [please do not alter] Sub-disciplineRace, Ethnicity and Migration Academic Level Advanced Undergraduate Contributor BiographiesJulia Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her research interests include marriage and relationships, families and personal life, and gender and sexuality. She is particularly interested in intimate relationships and the roles these play in an ever-changing social context. Previous publications have focused on marriage and narratives of love, sexuality and commitment; and living apart together relationships, policy and social change. Her wider interests include gender and popular culture and more recently Julia has completed research and published work on the topic of weddings: practices, experiences and (gendered) norms.Anwesa Chatterjee is a Research Assistant at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her research interests are in the areas of medical sociology and race-ethnic relations. She is particularly interested in complementary and alternative medicine, socio-economic status and health disparities, racial disparities in health and the sociology of mental health. She is currently working on two projects on the racial and ethnic health disparities in the use of complementary and alternative medicine and the racial differences in patient perceptions of patient empowerment and direct-to-consumer advertising in the US. Published Articles[insert an APA-style reference for any publications resulting from this research] AbstractOur research methods case focuses on how, as researchers, we negotiated the topic of race in recruiting participants and conducting interviews for a study about the cultural reproduction of Whiteness at wedding fairs in the UK. Here, we describe some of the challenges and difficulties we encountered in the course of our fieldwork, including: the designing and re-designing of our research tools, negotiating for interviews, and handling difficult interview exchanges. Though semi-structured interviews are commonly used by qualitative researchers in the social sciences, we highlight some of its shortcomings as a tool to investigating issues of race in a White space. Specifically, we draw on the various obstacles that we encountered in conducting this research. These include: dilemmas on condensing interview time and questions and yet gathering substantial information for analysis; the challenges of recruitment at a busy event like a wedding fair; dealing with challenging behaviour and refusals to participate; challenges of talking about race in a White space; and dealing with outright racist participants. We reflect on our experiences and draw attention to how this project compelled us to introspect on our own assumptions and biases as researchers while exposing the existent racism in a 'colour-blind' society (Bonilla Silva, 2006). Learning OutcomesBy the end of this case students should be able to: 1) Understand that responding to peculiar situations and on spot strategizing is key to producing good outcomes...

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Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire

Cited by 59 publications

References 2 publications

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Colluding with Neo-Liberalism: Post-Feminist Subjectivities, Whiteness and Expressions of Entitlement

Researching Race in a White Space: Negotiating Interviews at White-Wedding Shows in England

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