The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging

by Georgie Wemyss

This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire. She demonstrates how the repetitive burying of British Empire histories of violence in the retelling of Britain's past works to disguise how power operates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274216
• ISBN13: 9781138274211
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"