Ali Meghji

Black middle-class Britannia (eBook, ePUB)

Identities, repertoires, cultural consumption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being 'beyond race'.

Paying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural repertoires, Meghji argues that there are three modes of black middle-class identity: strategic assimilation, ethnoracial autonomous, and class-minded. Individuals within each of these identity modes use specific cultural repertoires to organise their cultural consumption. Those employing strategic assimilation draw on repertoires of code-switching and cultural equity, consuming traditional middle-class culture to maintain equality with the white middle-class in levels of cultural capital. Ethnoracial autonomous individuals draw on repertoires of 'browning' and Afro-centrism, self-selecting traditional middle-class cultural pursuits they decode as 'Eurocentric' while showing a preference for cultural forms that uplift black diasporic histories and cultures. Lastly, class-minded individuals draw on repertoires of post-racialism and de-racialisation, polarising between 'Black' and middle-class cultural forms. Black middle class Britannia examines how such individuals display an unequivocal preference for the latter, lambasting other black people who avoid middle-class culture as being culturally myopic or culturally uncultivated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526143099
• Artikelnr.: 57931144

Autorenporträt

Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles:
Crafting a study on Britain's Black middle class 2 Towards a triangle of
Black middle class identity 3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle
class Culture 4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital 5 Revisiting
race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural
consumption 6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social
system Appendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle class
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