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Black Middle-Class Britannia - Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption (Paperback)
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Black Middle-Class Britannia - Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption (Paperback)
Series: Racism, Resistance and Social Change
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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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