Talking Race in Young Adulthood: Race and Everyday Life in Contemporary Britain

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At a time in which race lies at the heart of so much public debate, Talking Race in Young Adulthood comes at an important moment. Drawing on ethnographic research with young adults in Manchester, Harries engages with ideas of the post-racial to explore how young adults make sense of their identities, relationships and new forms of racism, consequently revealing how and in what ways race remains a salient dimension of social experience. Indeed, this book presents news ways of thinking about how we live with difference, as Harries analyses the relationship between racism, generational identities and the spatial configurations of a city. Offering a distinct contribution to the sociology of race, this book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Human Geography, Youth Studies, Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction The research The book 2 The conflicted city The multi-layered city The city The ‘other’ side of the city Beyond the city Conclusion 3 The imaginings of a ‘post-racial’ generation A ‘post-racial’ generation? The myth of sameness and the fantasy of non-racism Other times and ‘othered’ places Mixing ≠ multiculture Conclusion 4 Anticipating race: race and the recognition of difference in encounters with diversity Expectations of difference No difference here Contrasted spaces: encountering the white working class Comfortable conceptions of difference Proximities to difference Learned encounters: the “unspoken code” Conclusion 5 Going against the grain: resistance to identifications and the claim for multiple subjectivities Starting from the point of misrecognition White working class identities Being ‘different’ and undermining identities of difference De-categorising identities Reworking the label: claiming a multi-faceted identity “I am not who I am supposed to be” Conclusion 6 When is racism? The problem of racism Talking racism Racism and the weight of categorisation Social mixing – an inadequate counter to racism Naming racism, naming racists Conclusion 7 Conclusion Final comments Index