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The Uses of Whiteness: What Sociologists Working on Europe Can Draw from US Research on Whiteness

Steve Garner

Bristol-University of the West of England, Steve.Garner{at}uwe.ac.uk

Whiteness studies are trans-disciplinary, but here the focus is principally on sociology and social history. Firstly, I identify, elucidate and synthesize the major ways in which whiteness in this literature has hitherto been problematized, to provide a sociological view of the multidisciplinary work so far. Five interpretations are identified; whiteness as absence, as content, as a set of norms, as resources and as a contingent hierarchy. Secondly, I make some proposals regarding the whiteness problematic’s degree of pertinence to European settings, with a brief discussion of the Irish case. Finally, I argue that whiteness is useful if conceptualized in a way that sets it within the parameters of studies of racism.

Key Words: identities • racism • whiteness

Sociology, Vol. 40, No. 2, 257-275 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038506062032
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