Thinking Identities

This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox explanations in the field, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory. Key contemporary questions include: issues about the black-white model of racism; the underplaying of anti-semitism; the need to examine ethnic majorities, as well as whiteness and the reconfiguration of the United Kingdom.

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DAVID ADAMSON University of Glamorgan GRAHAM DAY University of Wales, Bangor ANOOP NAYAK University of Newcastle SARAH NEAL Middlesex University MAX SILVERMAN Leeds University ROSEMARY SALES Middlesex University JOYCE I. SHERLOCK De Montfort University, Bradford RUTH SWIRSKY University of Westminster RAVI K. THIARA University of Warwick ANDREW THOMPSON University of Galmorgan JOOST VAN LOON University of Wales, Cardiff NINA YUVAL-DAVID University of Greenwich

Inhalt
Introduction ; M.J. Hickman , M.Mac an Ghaill & A.Brah PART 1: MANAGING DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE NATION Jews, Arabs and The Theorisation of Racism in Britain and France; M.Silverman & N.Yuval-Davis Bringing The 'Local' Back In: The Production of Welsh Identities; A.Thompson , G.Day & D.Adamson PART 2: REPRESENTING WHITENESS Performing Whiteness: Skinhead Culture and The Defence of White Masculinities; A.Kayak Populist Configurations of Race and Gender: The Case of Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and Divine Brown; S.Neal Whiter Shades of Pale: Media-Hybridities of Rodney King; J.Van Loon PART 3: COMPLEX SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS Gender, Ethnicity and Politics: the Protestants of Northern Ireland; R.Sales The African-Indian Antithesis? The 1949 Durban 'Riots' in South Africa; R.Thiara PART 4: MIGRATION AND IDENTITY Migration and Dislocation: Jewish Women's Experience; R.Swirsky Globalisation, Western Culture and Riverdance ; J.Sherlock Index