Moral Economy of Whiteness

Name: Moral Economy of Whiteness
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

A Moral Economy of Whiteness presents a working model for understanding the main ways in which white UK people make \u2018race\u2019 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 \u2018equality\u2019 is a \u2018dirty word\u2019 because it is seen as an agenda for redistributing resources to \u2018undeserving\u2019 ethnic minorities, \u2018non-integrating\u2019 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.