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Accent on privilege : English identities and anglophilia in the U.S.
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- Creator
- Katharine W. Jones
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781566399005, 1566399009, 9781566399012, 1566399017
- OCLC
- ocm46822322
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
- 1. "I Want to Be Able to Be English When I Want to Be": Identities as Sites of Contestation -- 2. Avoiding Extremes: Negotiating Nationalism and Nostalgia -- 3. Responding to Privilege: Class, Race, Nation, and Anglophilia -- 4. "Gee, I Love Your Accent": English People and Americans Interact -- 5. White Mischief? Doing Conceptual Work with Empire, Race, and Gender -- 6. "The English Are ... Not Racist, but ... Just English": Imagining a White Nation -- 7. To Be English or Not? Constructing Identities in the U.S
Subjects
- British Americans -- Ethnic identity.
- British Americans -- Race identity.
- British Americans -- Social conditions.
- National characteristics, British.
- Racism -- United States.
- Social status -- United States.
- Sex role -- United States.
- United States -- Ethnic relations.
- United States -- Race relations.
- Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, American.