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Black Middle-Class Britannia

- Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption

  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Engelsk

Beskrivelse

This 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'.Paying 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. Black middle class Britannia 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. -- .

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal184
  • Udgivelsesdato23-10-2013
  • ISBN139781526143075
  • Forlag Manchester University Press
  • Nummer i serien429
  • FormatHardback
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  • Vægt1292 g
  • Dybde1,4 cm
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    10 cm
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    15,6 cm
    23,4 cm

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