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This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people´s conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten legacy of a colonial past that cannot be confined to the past.

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Acknowledgements Frameworks, Fieldworks and Inspirations PART I: WHITE AMNESIA: WHITE MIDDLE CLASS ETHNICITIES BrAsian ´Invasion´ of White Suburban English Village Life The Racialisation of the Country, the City and the Forgetting of Empire PART II: CONFRONTING COLONIALITY: WHITE WORKING CLASS ETHNICITIES The Questioning of Racism in a Former Mining Town Neighbourhood Activism and the Ambiguities of Anti-Racism in the City PART III: POSTCOLONIAL GENEALOGIES Slave Ancestries and the Inheritance of Interracial Identities The Co-existence of Whiteness, Social Class and Coloniality in Britain and the United States of America Notes Bibliography Index

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KATHARINE TYLER Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. Her publications include Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference (edited with Bo Petersson).

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