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The paper suggests that we can usefully approach whiteness through the lens of phenomenology. Whiteness could be described as an ongoing and unfinished history, which orientates bodies in specific directions, affecting how they `take up' space, and what they `can do'. The paper considers how whiteness functions as a habit, even a bad habit, which becomes a background to social action. The paper draws on experiences of inhabiting a white world as a non-white body, and explores how whiteness becomes worldly through the noticeability of the arrival of some bodies more than others. A phenomenology of whiteness helps us to notice institutional habits; it brings what is behind to the surface in a certain way.

Intro -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- Introduction: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being -- Whiteness As Real, and Really Open-Ended -- Whiteness from Below -- "Race" -- The Future is an Ought as well as an Is -- A View from the Margins -- 1: An Analytic of Whiteness -- Two Negative Examples -- What Social Identities Are -- The History of "Race" -- Class -- The Problem of the One and the Many -- What Do We Mean When We Talk About "Whiteness?" -- Empirical Whiteness -- Imaginary Whiteness -- Subjective Whiteness -- Notes -- 2: White Exceptionalism -- Newton Versus Goethe -- Universalism Versus Purity -- Antiracist White Exceptionalism -- The Historicism of Concepts, Or the Meaning Question -- The Instability of Racism -- What To Do… -- Small Revolutions -- Notes -- 3: Double Consciousness -- Avoidance, Denial, Shame -- Ethnicity Instead of Race? -- Left-Wing Post-Racialism -- Aryan and Caucasian Myths -- White Labor -- Three Arguments Against Eliminativism -- White Double Consciousness -- Notes -- Conclusion: A Place in the Rainbow -- Unglorious Whiteness -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

This pioneering volume applies critical whiteness studies in a variety of educational contexts in the United Kingdom. The author uses ethnographic, biographical and documentary research to show how whiteness 'works' in education. The book also considers policy issues, and discusses how critical whiteness studies might function in anti-racist practice, shows how 'white supremacy' continues to dominate educational discourse and practice and discusses how this can be resisted.