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Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in race and ethnicity, urban sociology, cultural studies and social anthropology. It will also have some appeal within social policy and social work.

Table of Contents
Part 1 Racism, community and youth culture: white flight - locality, nostalgia and the preservation of privilege; neighbourhood nationalism - youth, race, nation and identity; social context and racist practice. Part 2 Transculturism and the politics of dialogue: our area - community, resistance and multiculture; not something we're new to, it's something we grew to... - youth, identification and alliance; experiencing and parodying racism. Part 3 Black music, youth culture and syncretism: Inglan, nice up - black music, autonomy and the cultural intermezzo; future reality - racisms, new ethnicity and the millennium.

New Ethnicities And Urban Culture: Social

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 29 February 1996
      ISBN-13 9781857282528
      978-1857282528
      ISBN-10 1857282523
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      Society and culture: general Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in race and ethnicity, urban sociology, cultural studies and social anthropology. It will also have some appeal within social policy and social work.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 Racism, community and youth culture: white flight - locality, nostalgia and the preservation of privilege; neighbourhood nationalism - youth, race, nation and identity; social context and racist practice. Part 2 Transculturism and the politics of dialogue: our area - community, resistance and multiculture; not something we're new to, it's something we grew to... - youth, identification and alliance; experiencing and parodying racism. Part 3 Black music, youth culture and syncretism: Inglan, nice up - black music, autonomy and the cultural intermezzo; future reality - racisms, new ethnicity and the millennium.

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