Black and ethnic leaderships in Britain : the cultural dimensions of political action

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Black and ethnic leaderships in Britain : the cultural dimensions of political action

edited by Pnina Werbner and Muhammad Anwar

Routledge, c1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Aimed at academics and students of anthropology, race and ethnic studies, sociology and cultural studies, this volume examines the different forms of leadership in Britain's black and ethnic communities, whose members originally came from the Caribbean and South Asia.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Context of Leadership: Migration, Settlement, and Radical Discrimination Muhammad Anwar Part II: Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: An Overview Pnina Werbner II Community, Party Politics, and the Black Experience Chapter 1: Ethnic Minorities: Voting, Representation, and electoral politics in Britain, and the Role of Leaders Muhammad Anwar Chapter 2: Black Sections in the Labour Party: The End of Ethnicity Sydney Jeffers Chapter 3: The Political Construction of Class and Community: Bangladeshi Political Leadership in Tower Hamlets John Eade III Culture Politicized: Protest and Autonomy Chapter 4: The Fiction of Unity in Ethnic Politics: Aspects of Representation and the State among British Pakistanis Pnina Werbner Chapter 5: Red Star Over Leicester: Racism, the Politics of Identity, and Black Youth in Britain Sallie Westwood Chapter 6: Drama and Politics in the Development of a London Carnival Abner Cohen Chapter 7: Striking a Bargain: Political Radicalism in a Middle Class London Borough Iris Kalka Chapter 8: Competing to Give, Competing to Get: Gujaratie Jains in Britain Marcus Banks IV Community Associations and the National Context Chapter 9: Organizational Splits and Political Ideology in the Indian Workers Associations Sasha Josephides Chapter 10: The Churches, Leadership, and Ethnic Minorities Mark R. D. Johnson Chapter 11: The Offense of the West Indian: Leadership and the Communal Option Harry Goulbourne.

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