Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture [Paperback]

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.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 IndexDAVID ADAMSON University of GlamorganGRAHAM DAY University of Wales, BangorANOOP NAYAK University of NewcastleSARAH NEAL Middlesex UniversityMAX SILVERMAN Leeds UniversityROSEMARY SALES Middlesex UniversityJOYCE I. SHERLOCK De Montfort University, BradfordRUTH SWIRSKY University of WestminsterRAVI K. THIARA University of WarwickANDREW THOMPSON University of GalmorganJOOST VAN LOON University of Wales, CardiffNINA YUVAL-DAVID University of Greenwich