Moral Economy of Whiteness

Name: Moral Economy of Whiteness
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

A Moral Economy of WhitenessFour Frames of Racializing Discourse\nAuthor(s): Steve Garner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138493285, 978-1138493285\nSynopsis\nA 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. \n\nGarner explores the context of these.