Introduction: Intersecting whiteness, interdisciplinary debates

Steyn, Melissa; Conway, Daniel

doi:10.1177/1468796810372309

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“…However, over time and across context, professional and personal privilege is developed, attained and secured in various ways (Portwood & Fielding, 1981;Choules, 2006). Similarly, less visible and conscious privileges, such as whiteness, are beginning to be seen this way (Steyn & Conway, 2010). Examining privilege at its juxtaposition with disadvantage raises its visibility and salience.…”

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Experiencing privilege at ethnic, gender and senior intersections

Atewologun

Sealy

2014

Journal of Managerial Psych

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In management studies, assumptions surround the fixed, categorical and binary nature of male, ethnic and other privileges. Compared to white, middle-class men, 'Others' are typically assumed not to experience privilege. We counter this assumption by applying intersectionality to examine privilege's juxtaposition with disadvantage. We offer an elaborated conceptualisation of organisational privilege and insight into the agency employed by individuals traditionally perceived as non-privileged. Approach: Using diaries and interviews, we analyse twenty micro-episodes from four senior minority ethnic women and men's accounts of intersecting ethnic, gender and senior identities. We identify how privilege plays out at the juxtaposition of (male gender and hierarchical) advantage with (female gender and ethnic) disadvantage. Findings: The fluidity of privilege is revealed through contextual, contested and conferred dimensions. Additionally, privilege is experienced in everyday micro-level encounters and we illustrate how 'sometimes privileged' individuals manage their identities at intersections. Research Limitations: This in-depth analysis draws on a small sample of unique British minority ethnic individuals to illustrate dimensions of privilege. Practical and social implications: It is often challenging to discuss privilege. However, our focus on atypical wielders of power challenges binary assumptions of privilege. This can provide a common platform for dominant and non-dominant group members to share how societal and organisational privileges differentially impact groups. This inclusive approach could reduce dominant group members' psychological and emotional resistance to social justice. Originality: Through bridging privilege and intersectionality perspectives, we offer a complex and nuanced perspective that contrasts against prevalent conceptions of privilege as invisible and uncontested.

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Experiencing privilege at ethnic, gender and senior intersections

Atewologun

Sealy

2014

Journal of Managerial Psych

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“…Class operates in and through racialization to produce contemporary rural imaginaries, yet as Jarocz and Lawson note, there is little rural research that "analyzes the geographic dimensions of whiteness and place-specific constructions of class-based subjectivities" (2002:10). This gap in the literature reflects the need for modes of theorizing that move beyond monolithic constructions of whiteness, to attend to its intersection with gender, class, and geography (Steyn and Conway 2010). Recent scholarship on the category of "white trash" has drawn attention to the "diacriticals of class and regional difference that importantly score the social landscape of white identity" (Hartigan 2003:101;Wray 2006).…”

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“…The article generates new insights into the spatial organization of racism by revealing the classed and gendered interplay of rurality and whiteness in Canada. Building on recent scholarship advocating for intersectional approaches to whiteness (Steyn and Conway 2010), the analysis demonstrates how contemporary discourses of rurality pathologize working-class, rural whites in ways that sustain broader structures of white supremacy (Shirley 2010).…”

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Youth, Dirt, and the Spatialization of Subjectivity: An Intersectional Approach to White Rural Imaginaries

Cairns¹

2013

Can. J. Soc.

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Canada's rural idyll is embedded within the colonial legacy of a white settler society; however, little research has examined how class and gender uphold this articulation of rurality and whiteness. This article draws on ethnographic research with white, working-class rural youth to develop an intersectional analysis of rural imaginaries. The analysis shows how youth construct their own rural identities through racialized representations of urban and global "others." I argue that these racist place-narratives must be understood in the context of competing discourses of rurality in Canada: the romanticized pure white rural of colonial history, and the pathologized poor white rural of a cosmopolitan future. Even as youth locate their gendered performances within the rural idyll, they are marked as "dirts" by their classed, rural status. By inscribing racist discourses onto others, youth resist the classist imagery projected onto their community and thereby reclaim a pure white rural idyll.

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“…From its foundational roots in the work of W.B. DuBois (1935) Audre Lorde (1984) and bell hooks (1989), academic scholarship on whiteness has grown rapidly over the past 20-30 years and is now in its 'third wave' iteration (Twine and Gallagher, 2008; for further reviews see Fine et al, 1997;Nayak, 2007;Steyn and Conway, 2010;Garner, 2017). This body of work has advanced an understanding of whiteness as a structure, a discourse and a 'problematic' from which to analyse social relations (Garner, 2007:3).…”

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Brexit, race and migration

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so called 'left behinds' and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and contexts; an exploration of arguably parallel and similarly complex developments in the US with the rise of populism and support for Donald Trump; an analysis of the role of whiteness in the experiences of East European nationals in the UK in the face of increased anti-foreigner sentiment and uncertainty about future status; a discussion of intergenerational differences in outlooks on race and immigration and the sidelining of different people and places in Brexit debates; and a studied critique of prevailing tropes about Brexit which create divisive classed and raced categories and seek to oversimplify broader understandings of race, class and migration. Taken together these articles, all arguing for the need to eschew easy answers and superficial narratives, offer important and opportune insights into what Brexit tells us about race and migration in contemporary UK.

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Introduction: Intersecting whiteness, interdisciplinary debates

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Experiencing privilege at ethnic, gender and senior intersections

Experiencing privilege at ethnic, gender and senior intersections

Youth, Dirt, and the Spatialization of Subjectivity: An Intersectional Approach to White Rural Imaginaries

Brexit, race and migration

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