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New Ethnicities and Language Use

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Roxy Harris

    1. King’s College London, UK

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Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 1-14

  3. Researching Ethnicities and Cultures

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 15-29

  4. Language Use and Ethnicity: Mapping the Terrain

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 30-39

  5. New Ethnicities As Lived Experience

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 40-89

  6. How You Talk Is Who You Are

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 90-116

  7. ‘My Culture’, ‘My Language’, ‘My Religion’: Communities, Practices and Diasporas

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 117-147

  8. Popular Culture, Ethnicities and Tastes

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 148-164

  9. What is a Brasian?

    • Roxy Harris
    Pages 165-180

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 181-209
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The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians .

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'Ignored by politicians and journalists who routinely pronounce the 'death of multiculturalism' this extraordinary book shows how British society is re-made by young people that both carry and redefine the diversity of cultural life. Harris' unique contribution is his attentiveness to quotidian multicultural realities. The lesson - even more important now than when it was first published - is that ethnicity is defined not by the short-hand of identity labels like Sikh, Muslim, Black, White but rather by what people do everyday'

- Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Authors and Affiliations

  • King’s College London, UK

    Roxy Harris

About the author

Roxy Harris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, UK. He has a particular interest in the relationships between language, power, ethnicity and culture and has researched, taught and published on these issues in London for many years.

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