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14 Knowing ‘whiteness’
to understand the formation of whiteness, it is important to explore how
individuals construct themselves and live their lives in relation to the spaces
and localities in which they live. The self is constructed through a process
of interpellation into a range of discourses and the way in which they are
located in a particular time and place and within a biographical trajectory.
As the material discussed in these chapters shows, this is a highly complex
process. By focusing on the particularly gendered experience of mothering,
the material also illustrates the extent to which these racialised and classed
processes are also gendered.
