Sarah Glynn

Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End (eBook, ePUB)

A political history

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism. It recounts and analyses the experiences of many of those who took part in over six decades of political history that range over secular nationalism, trade unionism, black radicalism, mainstream local politics, Islamism and the rise and fall of the Respect Coalition. Through this Bengali case study and examples from wider immigrant politics, it traces the development and adoption of the concepts of popular frontism, revolutionary stages theory and identity politics. It demonstrates how these theories and tactics have cut across class-based organisation and acted as an impediment to addressing socio-economic inequality; and it argues for a left materialist alternative. It will appeal equally to sociologists, political activists and local historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847799586
• Artikelnr.: 48796585

Autorenporträt

Sarah Glynn is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Sailors, students and settlers 2. Desher Dak - 'The Call of
the Homeland' 3. Joi Bangla! - 1971 4. British Bangladeshis 5. Socialism on
stony ground 6. Black radicalism and separate organisation 7. Bengalis in
the council chamber 8. Mobilisation through Islam 9. The respect experiment
10. Diverging paths Bibliography Index