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This article offers an explanation of how and why the British working class, from being marginal to white identity in the nineteenth century, came to adopt and adapt this identity in the twentieth century. The changing position of whiteness within the symbolic constitution of capitalism is discussed. More specifically, the transition from whiteness as bourgeois identity within Victorian, relatively laissez-faire, capitalism to whiteness as a popular, or mass, identity, within the more state interventionist capitalism of the twentieth century is used to exemplify the mutable nature, and political complexities, of the relationship between working class and white identities. The paper concludes with some observations on the implications of this argument for the theory and practice of anti-racism.
Author(s): Bonnett A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Historical Sociology
Year: 1998
Volume: 11
Issue: 3
Pages: 316-340
ISSN (print): 0952-1909
ISSN (electronic): 1467-6443
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6443.00066
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6443.00066
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