Talking Race in Young Adulthood: Race and Everyday Life in Contemporary Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367874735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 156 str.

Bethan Harries

Opis

Drawing on ethnographic research with young adults in Manchester, Harries engages with ideas of the post-racial to explore how young adults make sense of their identities, relationships and new forms of racism, revealing how and in what ways race remains a salient dimension of social experience.

Spis treści

Chapter one – Introduction

The research

The book

Chapter two – The Conflicted City

Introduction

The multi-layered city

The city

The ‘Other’ side of the city

Gorton, Longsight and Moss Side

Beyond the city

Conclusion

　

Chapter three - The imaginings of a ‘post-racial’ generation

Introduction

A ‘post-racial’ generation?

The myth of sameness and the fantasy of non-racism

Other times and ‘Othered’ places

Mixing ≠ multiculture

Conclusion

　

Chapter four – Anticipating race: Race and the recognition of difference in encounters with diversity

Introduction

Expectations of difference

No difference here

Contrasted spaces: encountering the white working class

Comfortable conceptions of difference

Proximities to difference

Learned encounters: the "unspoken code"

Conclusion

　

　

Chapter five – Going against the grain: resistance to identifications and the claim for multiple subjectivities

Introduction

Starting from the point of misrecognition

White working-class identities

Being ‘different’ and undermining identities of difference

De-categorising identities

Reworking the label: claiming a multi-faceted identity

"I am not who I am supposed to be"

Conclusion

Chapter six – When is racism?

Introduction

The problem of racism

Talking racism

Racism and the weight of categorisation

Social mixing: an inadequate counter to racism

Naming racism, naming racists

Conclusion

　

Chapter seven – Conclusion

　

　

Dedic

O autorze

Bethan Harries is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.