Culture, identity and politics : ethnic minorities in Britain
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Culture, identity and politics : ethnic minorities in Britain
(Research in ethnic relations series)
Avebury, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-148) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Exploring the link between culture, identity and political action in Britain and Europe, this volume refines the idea of "inventing tradition" and suggests that "imagination of tradition" may be more appropriate. The book sets out to challenge orthodoxies that have dominated the anti-racist debate.
Table of Contents
- Racism and identity - issues for the Irish in Britain
- anti-racist strategies - national identity and French anti-racist discourses and movements
- Asians have culture, West Indians have problems - discourses of race and ethnicity in and out of anthropology
- ethnicity and the politics of cultural difference - an agenda for the 1990s?
- essentializing the other - a critical response
- on the reproduction and representatoin of Hinduism in Britain
- the politics of Islamic identity among Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in Britain
- the impact of religion, culture, racism and politics on the multiple identities of Sikh girls
- street credibility and identity - some observations on the art of being Black
- back in the pavilion - cricket and the image of African Caribbeans in Oxford
- politics of identity.
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