A Clarification of ‘White Noise’ and Some Observations about Paul Michael Garrett's Response.

The author provides a brief clarification of his original article which was mis-anticipated by Paul Michael Garrett. He explores the insights which whiteness studies, potentially offer into the ways that race operates outside situations that are seen as characteristic difference along with consideration of number of problems related to whiteness including a tendency to reproduce a black/white binary opposition, simplistic accounts of the processes through which racialisation occurs and a limiting focus on racism as an aspect of internal values. Further justification of his criticism by Garrett icluding small number of texts regarding whiteness in social work education, warrants more detailling consideration and unexploration of class is also presented.