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

ISBN-13: 9781138120853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 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.

Recenzje

In this lively study of young adults, race and everyday multiculture Bethan Harries explores how new generations learn to live with difference. What is produced is a vibrant, engaging and ultimately hopeful study of modern day multicultural living. Stitching together rich narrative accounts from young adults, the author highlights how new generations talk about race and, in many cases, might work towards a post-racial future in which race is no longer a primary marker of difference. Critical of governmental approaches to integration and cohesion, Talking Race offers a far more compelling and enriching account of generational change, difference and urban conviviality.

Anoop Nayak, Professor of Social & Cultural Geography, Newcastle Unviersity, UK

Britain’s cities are more racially, ethnically, religiously and socially diverse than ever before and are the locus of both entrenched forms of inequality and hostility and post-racial conviviality. Talking Race provides an important intervention into theories of postrace, urban space and micro-encounters as they are lived and contested at the level of the everyday. It explores the complex terrain of negotiating race through the discourses of young adults, treading an empirically rich and theoretically nuanced path through the ambivalences, tensions and possibilities of contemporary urban multiculture.

Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK

O autorze

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