Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground Book

Acknowledgements viii

1 Frameworks, Fieldworks and Inspirations 1

Part I White Amnesia: White Middle-Class Ethnicities

2 BrAsian 'Invasion' of White Suburban English Village Life 39

3 The Racialisation of the Country, the City and the Forgetting of Empire 79

Part II Confronting Coloniality: White Working-Class Ethnicities

4 The Questioning of Racism in a Former Coalmining Town 111

5 Neighbourhood Activism and the Ambiguities of Anti-Racism in the City 146

Part III Postcolonial Genealogies

6 Slave Ancestries and the Inheritance of Interracial Identities 175

7 The Co-Existence of Whiteness, Social Class and Coloniality in Britain and the USA 206

Notes 223

Bibliography 229

Index 237