Contesting culture : discourses of identity in multi-ethnic London / Gerd Baumann.
- Format
- Book
- Language
- English
- Published/Created
- Cambridge, CB : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Description
- xiii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Details
- Subject(s)
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- Ethnicity—England—Southall (London) [Browse]
- Ethnic neighborhoods—England—Southall (London) [Browse]
- Community life—England—Southall (London) [Browse]
- Multiculturalism—England—Southall (London) [Browse]
- Southall (London, England)—Ethnic relations [Browse]
- Southall (London, England)—Social conditions [Browse]
- Series
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 100. [More in this series]
- Bibliographic references
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 1. Introduction: the process of research
- 2. The argument: identifying a dominant discourse. The reification of culture. The discourse of 'community' on the basis of ethnicity. The dominant discourse in Britain. Presentation of the data
- 3. A shared Southall culture? 'Town': a cultivated space. Ethnic distinctions, economic commonalities. Some local history: migration and the 'white backlash', community building and 'the Southall Riots'. Local politics as community competition
- 4. The dominant discourse applied: 'self-evident' communities of culture. On Sikhs: the 'majority community'. On Hindus: cultural cachet. On Muslims: marginalized as a community. On Afro-Caribbeans: community across island cultures. On Whites: Irish without community, English without culture? On youth: culture consciousness among children
- 5. The dominant discourse denied: community as creation, culture as process. Sikhs and the creation of caste communities.
- Hindus and the culture of encompassment. Muslims and the multi-cultural community of Islam. Afro-Caribbeans and four approaches to 'finding' culture. Whites and three strategies in the absence of community
- 6. Culture and community as terms of cultural contestation. On youth: assessing and discovering an Asian culture. Questioning Asian culture: socialist and feminist networks. Contesting political community: 'Are Asians Black?'. Questioning religious community: interfaith networks. Contesting religious community: convergence, encompassment, and 'multi-cultural' equality. Summary of the argument. The community patterning of the demotic discourse. The local persistence of the dominant discourse. The relationship between dominant and demotic discourse. The question of rights.
- ISBN
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- 0521554829
- 052155554X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95034576
- OCLC
- 32856771
- RCP
- C - S
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