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Contesting Culture

Paperback • 1996 • English

Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London

By Gerd Baumann

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About the book

This innovative study presents an account of the interaction of people from different ethnic backgrounds who live in Southall, the most densely populated, multi-ethnic ghetto in the London area. Breaking with the tradition of studying a single ethnic community, Gerhard Baumann treats Southall as a social field, in which various immigrant groups come to terms with one another and with the dominant, if distant, host culture. The people of Southall affirm ethnic distinctiveness in some contexts, bu...Show more

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9780521555548

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Contesting Culture

Format

Paperback

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