Based on extensive interviews, the author establishes four overlapping frames through which white English people currently understand immigration. These interpretations reflect national, racialised and classed identities. The themes derived from England generate numerous international points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the backlash against multiculturalism in the West.

Steve Garner is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, UK.

1. Four Frames of Racialising Discourse 2. 'Hey White Boy!': Identifications, Dis-Identifications, Representations 3. The 'Neoliberal Postracial' State 4. Classed Understandings 5. Unfairness: Why 'Equality' is a 'Dirty Word' 6. Political Correctness Gone Mad 7. From Repressed Englishness to the (Un)Finished Business of Empire 8. Impossible Integration 9. Political Uses of Whiteness in an International Context 10. Analysis and Conclusion: A Moral Economy of Whiteness and its Doxic Waste