Blacks and Britannity
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Blacks and Britannity
Ashgate, c2001
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [153]-172
LCCN: 2001095452
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Featuring original research concerning young African-Caribbeans in Birmingham, this book addresses complex issues of urban violence and insecurity, racism and discrimination, alienation, resistance and social networks. Employing the methodology of sociological intervention developed by Alain Touraine, the book explores the experiences of a group of young people who are simultaneously presumed to be victims and perpetrators of violence. It examines their relationship to this violence, its meanings for and effects upon them, how they constitute themselves as social actors and subjects, and their capacity for action. The book also addresses the fact that ethnic monitoring and multicultural policies place the question of ethnicity on the British social and political agenda alongside issues of racism and discrimination. Exploring both the perceived and personally experienced position of young people within this context, it aims to shed light upon processes of group identification and action.
Table of Contents
- Research in ethnic relations in Great Britain - state of the art today
- ethnicity and labour migrants' mode of settlement
- politics and ethnic minorities
- minority ethnic groups in Birmingham
- blacks in British society - categorization and ethnicity
- meanings and mechanisms of action.
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