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This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox understandings of the production of these identities, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory. It highlights a shift away from a black-white dualistic model which has been the dominant race-relations explanation in Britain. Key contemporary issues are explored. These include the underplaying of anti-Semitism and anti-Arab racism in dominant race-relations models; the relationship of Irish, Welsh, Scottish and other social categories to 'Britishness'; the loss and dislocation of identity but also the potential for reformulating identities between different social divisions with particular reference to gender, class and sexuality; the critical examination of differences within racialized social groups; and an exploration of ethnic majorities, including questions of whiteness.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Thinking Identities
• Subtitle: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture
• Author: Avtar Brah
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225
• EAN: 9780333717745
• ISBN: 0333717740
• ID: 04598053
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 138 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. June 1999

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