1st Edition
White Lives The Interplay of 'Race', Class and Gender in Everyday Life
Acknowledgements *
1: Knowing ‘whiteness’ *
Why look at whiteness? – Critiquing white feminism *
White studies? *
Examining the white in the Union Jack *
Summary of the book *
2. Troubling ‘race’ *
Introduction *
Deconstructing, de-essentialising and troubling ‘race’ *
Perceptual practices and the performativity of ‘race’ *
Conclusion *
3. Talk, tea and tape recorders *
Camberwell and Clapham *
Finding interviewees *
Who is white? *
The interviews *
Analysing the Interviews *
4: Narrating the self *
Introduction *
A story to tell *
Sally - transformation of the self *
Where there is no story *
Madeleine: ‘Where do I fit in?’ *
Deborah: a natural progression *
Rosemary: - ‘going with the flow’ *
Conclusion *
5. Seeing, talking, living ‘race’ *
Introduction *
‘Race’ in the eye of the beholder (or seeing is believing) *
Blackness in the white imaginary *
Big black man *
Geographies of ‘race’ (small white girl comes to big bright lights) *
Conclusion *
6: In search of a ‘good mix’. ‘Race’, class and gender and practices of mothering. *
Introduction *
Sensitive mothers *
Mother’s friendships and social networking *
Choosing schools *
Guess whose coming for tea, Mummy *
Conclusion *
7: How English am I? *
Introduction *
England’s Green and Pleasant Land *
Emma *
Heather *
Empty Englishness *
Evading Englishness *
Conclusion *
8. Conclusion *
Bibliography *
Appendix 1: Interviewees *
Appendix 2: Interview Questions *
Biography
Bridget Byrne is a lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester.
