Ali Meghji

Black middle-class Britannia (eBook, ePUB)

Identities, repertoires, cultural consumption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affect Black British middle class cultural consumption. The author argues there are three black middle class identity modes: strategic assimilation, class- minded, and ethnoracial autonomous. People towards each of these identity modes organise their cultural consumption according to specific cultural repertoires. Those towards 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, showing a preference for cultural forms that uplift Black diasporic histories and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526143099
• Artikelnr.: 57931144

Autorenporträt

Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles:
Crafting a study on Britain's Black middle class 2 Towards a triangle of
Black middle class identity 3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle
class Culture 4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital 5 Revisiting
race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural
consumption 6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social
system Appendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle class
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