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Making Sociological Sense Of The Idea Of Whiteness, This Book Skillfully Argues How This Concept Can Help Us Understand Contemporary Societies, Bringing An Emphasis On Empirical Work To A Heavily Theorised Area. Introduction: The Political Stakes Of Using Whiteness -- Whiteness As Terror And Supremacy -- Whiteness As A Kind Of Absence -- Whiteness As Values, Norms And Cultural Capital -- Whiteness As Contingent Hierarchies -- Whiteness In The Caribbean And Latin America -- Whiteness At The Margins -- How The Irish Became White (again) -- 'asylumgration': The Others Blur -- Racial Purity, Integration And The Idea Of Home -- Conclusion: In Defence Of The Whiteness Problematic. Steve Garner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [189]-208) And Index.