Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local, national and regional level.
This edited collection provides an introduction and critical review of conceptual developments and policy contexts of migration scholarship within an Australian and global context, through:
political economy analyses of migration and associated transformations;
sociological analyses of 'settling in' processes;
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Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of p...
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black" identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an...
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Amer...
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation have produced historically powerful processes of what he terms 'racialised class formation', resulting in a distinct (and internally differentiated) entity, not merely a subset of a larger professional middle class.
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professio...
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set the stage for the neoliberal turn in US policy. Randolph Hohle questions some of the most basic assumptions about the civil rights movement, including the importance of non-violence, and the movement's legacy on contemporary black politics. Non-violence was the effect of the movement's emphasis on...
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local act...
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nation. In the US, these indigenous racial categories are usually defined in terms of white and black. Kretsedemas explores how this kind of racialization puts migrants in a quandary, leading them to be simultaneously raced and situated outside of race.
Although the book focuses on the situation of migrants in the US,...
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way...
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the constitution of black American and British life within the class division and social relations of production of the global capitalist world-system,...
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity i...
The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra remix, R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other urban sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban underground music cultures in exploring just how members of this scene take up space in upper-diverse London. It provides a fresh perspective on the creativity of British South Asian youth culture, and makes a significant sociological intervention into this area by bringing the focus back onto...
The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra remi...
Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this question is race. This book argues that the white response to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s inadvertently created the conditions for emergence of American neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the result of an unlikely alliance of an elite liberal business class and local segregationists that sought to preserve...
Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects, public schools, public spaces, and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal pr...
