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For more information in this field visit the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds

For people who are new to the field, some introductory texts:

  • Bonnett, A. (1996). ‘White studies: the problems and opportunities of a new research agenda’ Theory, Culture and Society 13(2): 145-155.
  • Bonnett A. (1996). ‘Anti-racism and the critique of “white” identities’ New Community 22(1): 97-110.
  • Frankenberg, R. (1997). ‘Introduction: Local whitenesses, localizing whiteness’ in Frankenberg (ed.) Displacing whiteness: Essays in social and cultural criticism, Durham: Duke University Press: 1-33.
  • Garner, S. (2007). Whiteness: An Introduction, London: Routledge.
  • Nayak, A. (2007). ‘Critical whiteness studies’ Sociology Compass 1(2): 737-755.

Critiques of the idea of critical whiteness studies as a field:

  • Ahmed, S. (2004). ‘Declarations of whiteness’ borderlands 3(2)
  • Ignatiev, N. (1997). ‘The Point Is Not to Interpret Whiteness But to Abolish It’, Paper given at The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 11-13 April 1997. Available here:
  • Wiegman, R. (1999). ‘Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity’ boundary 2 26(3): 115-150.
  • Wiegman, R. (2012). ‘The political conscious: Whiteness studies and the paradox of particularity’ in Wiegman’s Object lessons: Next wave, new directions in women’s studies Durham: Duke University Press: 137-196.

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