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White Lives
How are we to understand race at the beginning of the twenty-first century?
How do concepts of ‘race’ intersect with gender and class?
White Lives reconsiders white identities through white experiences of
race. Exploring race, alongside class and gender, Bridget Byrne analyses
the flexibility of racialised discourse in everyday life, while simultaneously
arguing for a radical deconstruction of the notions of race these discourses
create.
Byrne focuses on the experience of white mothers and their young chil-
dren, as a key site in the reproduction of class, race and gender subjectivi-
ties. Through this, she offers a unique perspective on both the experience
of motherhood and ideas of white identity. Her analysis is multilayered,
looking at local and private spaces but also considering national and public
debates concerning race.
This accessible and revealing book will appeal across disciplines to stu-
dents studying sociology, anthropology, geography, race and ethnicity and
cultural studies.
Bridget Byrne is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
