Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-ethnic LondonA vivid 1996 ethnographic account of an aspect of contemporary British life, and a challenge to the conventional discourse of community studies. |
Contents
Introduction the process of research | 1 |
The argument identifying a dominant discourse | 9 |
The discourse of community on the basis of ethnicity | 14 |
The dominant discourse in Britain | 20 |
Presentation of the data | 31 |
A shared Southall culture? | 37 |
Ethnic distinctions economic commonalities | 47 |
migration and the white backlash community building and the Southall Riots | 54 |
Muslims and the multicultural community of Islam | 122 |
AfroCaribbeans and four approaches to finding culture | 126 |
Whites and three strategies in the absence of community | 134 |
Culture and community as terms of cultural contestation | 145 |
assessing and discovering an Asian culture | 146 |
socialist and feminist networks | 157 |
Are Asians Black? | 161 |
interfaith networks | 173 |
Local politics as community competition | 59 |
The dominant discourse applied selfevident communities of culture | 72 |
the majority community | 73 |
cultural cachet | 78 |
marginalized as a community | 81 |
community across island cultures | 86 |
Irish without community English without culture? | 92 |
culture consciousness among children | 98 |
The dominant discourse denied community as creation culture as process | 109 |
Hindus and the culture of encompassment | 116 |
convergence encompassment and multicultural equality | 178 |
Conclusion | 188 |
The community patterning of the demotic discourse | 190 |
The local persistence of the dominant discourse | 192 |
The relationship between dominant and demotic discourse | 195 |
The question of rights | 198 |
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Common terms and phrases
activists adults Afro Afro-Caribbean Afro-Caribbean Southallians anthropologists Asian community Asian culture Bhangra Black community Britain British Caribbean caste cent centre Christian claim cleavages colour community boundaries community leaders consciousness context convergence criteria culture and community defined demotic discourse distinctions dominant discourse Ealing East African encompassment endorsed English Southallians ethnic categories ethnic group ethnic minorities ethnographic faith fieldwork Gujarati gurdwara Guru Hawkes heritage Hindu Southallians Hinduism Hundleby immigrants Interfaith Irish Labour marriage McGarry migrants Misty in Roots multi-cultural Muslim Muslim community Muslim Southallians neighbours networks nity Pakistani pan-Africanist political Punjabi question racism Ramgarhia Rastafarian Ravidasi Reggae reified culture religion religious community shared Sikh Sikh Southallians Sikhism social society South Asian Southallians Southall Black Sisters Southall riots Southall youths Southall's temple term Black tion town tradition Urdu wards West Indian West London white Southallians word worship Yabsley young Southallians