Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture

✍ Scribed by Avtar Brah, Mary J. Hickman, Máirtín Mac an Ghaill (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Series: Explorations in Sociology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox explanations in the field, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory. Key contemporary questions include: issues about the black-white model of racism; the underplaying of anti-semitism; the need to examine ethnic majorities, as well as whiteness and the reconfiguration of the United Kingdom.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Jews, Arabs and the Theorisation of Racism in Britain and France....Pages 25-48
Bringing the ‘Local’ Back in: the Production of Welsh Identities....Pages 49-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
‘Pale Warriors’: Skinhead Culture and the Embodiment of White Masculinities....Pages 71-99
Populist Configurations of Race and Gender: the Case of Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and Divine Brown....Pages 100-119
Whiter Shades of Pale: Media-Hybridities of Rodney King....Pages 120-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Gender, Ethnicity and Politics: the Protestants of Northern Ireland....Pages 145-160
The African-Indian Antithesis? The 1949 Durban ‘Riots’ in South Africa....Pages 161-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Migration and Dislocation: Echoes of Loss within Jewish Women’s Narratives....Pages 187-204
Globalisation, Western Culture and Riverdance....Pages 205-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-225

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Cultural Studies; Ethnicity Studies