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Re-racialisation of whiteness and class
ESRC Seminar: The White Working Class as ‘Flawed Consumers’: Representations and Policy Responses16 September 2014, [email protected]
Class, whiteness
Class: contested, nebulous, slippery
Whiteness, working class
Socially constructed; different meanings
Representations
Representations of whiteness
Cultural meanings
‘Rivers of Blood’, 1968
Whiteness as resistant to change
Retreating multiculturalism and remaking whiteness
Lived experiences
Nuanced, complex
Inclusive identity
“British, it doesn't mean that you’re white at all… you’re in this country and you’re meant to be here, you don’t need to be white to be British.”Roxy, white female, 20s
“I grew up around Birmingham; I have coloured black friends and I’ve got a bit of Indian in me but I don’t know much about that culture.” Dave, white male, 30s
Whiteness, identity
British, it doesn't mean that you’re white at all… you’re in this country and you’re meant to be here, you don’t need to be white to be British.
‘Roxy’, white female, 20s (Open Society Project)
Going forward…
Complexity and nuance
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