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Gate-keeping the nation: discursive claims, counter-claims and racialized logics of whiteness
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume: 44, Issue: 16, Pages: 215 - 235
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This article analyses the racialization of discourses about national identities, and explores the implications for populations racialized as white. Two extensive datasets have been brought together, spanning a decade and 560 interviews, to explore discursive interplay, the oppositional nature and re...
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