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Ethnicity and Racism
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how…
Class, Control, and Classical Music
Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and…
FGM, social media activism and ‘honour’ killings
Christina Julios discusses the phenomenon of anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism, forced marriage and ‘honour’ killings…
Contesting the ‘model minority’
While racialized youth are often central in debates on citizenship, multiculturalism and belonging, those ascribed as ‘British Chinese’…
Constructions of the ‘migration crisis’ in Europe
Norman Ginsburg discusses the many different constructions put on the phenomenon of immigration in Europe. Contrasting welcoming perspectives…
Islam moves West: religious change in the first and second generations
What happens to the religious identity, belief, and practice of Muslims who settle in Western countries? Do they,…
The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes
Carol Vincent, UCL Institute of Education, discusses the two-year period (June 2009-June 2011) research focusing on 62 parents…
Negotiations of minority ethnic middle-class identity
‘Between authenticity and pretension’: parents’, pupils’ and young professionals’ negotiations of minority ethnic middle-class identity.
Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses
Carol Vincent, UCL Institute of Education, discusses the project exploring the friendships of children and adults in ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec,…
De-Exoticizing Ghetto Poverty: On the Ethics of Representation in Urban Ethnography
To write an ethnography about poor urban people is to risk courting controversy. While all ethnographers face questions…