{"product_id":"black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption-9781526156082","title":"Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being ‘beyond race’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural repertoires, Meghji argues that there are three modes of black middle-class identity: strategic assimilation, ethnoracial autonomous, and class-minded. Individuals within each of these identity modes use specific cultural repertoires to organise their cultural consumption. Those employing strategic assimilation draw on repertoires of code-switching and cultural equity, consuming traditional middle-class culture to maintain equality with the white middle-class in levels of cultural capital. Ethnoracial autonomous individuals draw on repertoires of ‘browning’ and Afro-centrism, self-selecting traditional middle-class cultural pursuits they decode as ‘Eurocentric’ while showing a preference for cultural forms that uplift black diasporic histories and cultures. Lastly, class-minded individuals draw on repertoires of post-racialism and de-racialisation, polarising between ‘Black’ and middle-class cultural forms. \u003ci\u003eBlack middle class Britannia\u003c\/i\u003e examines how such individuals display an unequivocal preference for the latter, lambasting other black people who avoid middle-class culture as being culturally myopic or culturally uncultivated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A tour de force with original arguments, empirical richness and theoretical ambition, all presented in a beautifully crafted written narrative.' \u003cbr\u003eLes Back is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBlack middle-class Britannia \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fascinating portrait of race and class in contemporary London. Using the cultural world as a site to examine inequality, Ali Meghji shows how racial and class boundaries are both understood and navigated in varying ways depending on the identities of middle-class blacks. While some see the existence of middle class blacks as evidence that Britain is now color-blind, \u003ci\u003eBlack middle-class Britannia\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely and in depth counterpoint to this view.'\u003cbr\u003ePatricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles: Crafting a study on Britain’s Black middle class\u003cbr\u003e2 Towards a triangle of Black middle class identity\u003cbr\u003e3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle class Culture\u003cbr\u003e4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital\u003cbr\u003e5 Revisiting race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural consumption\u003cbr\u003e6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social system\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle class\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041020838231,"sku":"9781526156082","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526156082.jpg?v=1750948628","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption-9781526156082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}