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Book The Idea of English Ethnicity

Download or read book The Idea of English Ethnicity written by Robert J. C. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Idea of English Ethnicity “Robert Young has written a compelling and thorough textual history of English ethnicity and its discursive relation to the history of racial theory. Comprehensive, carefully considered, and clearly written, this book sets the standard against which any future study of Englishness will be assessed. The bar has been lifted a couple of notches higher.” David Theo Goldberg, University of California “What is Englishness?, Robert J. C. Young asks, and in The Idea of English Ethnicityhe offers an impressively well-researched and eminently readable answer.” Werner Sollors, Harvard University

Book Ethnicity and Englishness

Download or read book Ethnicity and Englishness written by Ikhlaq Din and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalisation, the most pressing concerns are with matters of identity, personal and collective. This book explores the culture of nationality, groups and religions through the inner lives of second generation immigrants in England. The young people studied reveal surprising and sophisticated as well as complex attitudes. They reveal the contradictions, the opportunities and the dangers of their collective identities, and reveal how they are able to make use for good or ill their position in society. What they say relates closely to the experiences of any identifiable group. The book also relates the experience of one community to the development of prejudice and the way in which people form their sense of self. The notions of nationality and nationalism, of tribal and religious loyalty, are all covered. The book does not just describe, or give a voice to minorities, but analyses some of the reasons for the suspicions of groups for each other, for the development of prejudice, as well as suggesting the ways in which to deal with it.

Book Culture  Identity and Politics

Download or read book Culture Identity and Politics written by T. O. Ranger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Island Race

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Wilson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 113620864X
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Island Race written by Kathleen Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, The Island Race: Englishness, empire and gender in the eighteenth century is an innovative study of the issues of nation, gender and identity. Wilson bases her analysis on a wide range of case studies drawn both from Britain and across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Creating a colourful and original colonial landscape, she considers topics such as: * sodomy * theatre * masculinity * the symbolism of Britannia * the role of women in war. Wilson shows the far-reaching implications that colonial power and expansion had upon the English people's sense of self, and argues that the vaunted singularity of English culture was in fact constituted by the bodies, practices and exchanges of peoples across the globe. Theoretically rigorous and highly readable, The Island Race will become a seminal text for understanding the pressing issues that it confronts.

Book English Ethnicity and Culture in North America

Download or read book English Ethnicity and Culture in North America written by David T. Gleeson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten scholars examine English identity, what makes it distinct, and its role in shaping American culture To many, English immigrants contributed nothing substantial to the varied palette of ethnicity in North America. While there is wide recognition of German American, French American, African American, and Native American cultures, discussion of English Americans as a distinct ethnic group is rare. Yet the historians writing in English Ethnicity and Culture in North America show that the English were clearly immigrants too in a strange land, adding their own hues to the American and Canadian characters. In this collection, editor David T. Gleeson and other contributors explore some of the continued links between England, its people, and its culture with North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These essays challenge the established view of the English having no "ethnicity," highlighting the vibrancy of the English and their culture in North America. The selections also challenge the prevailing notion of the English as "invisible immigrants." Recognizing the English as a distinct ethnic group, similar to the Irish, Scots, and Germans, also has implications for understanding American identity by providing a clearer picture of how Americans often have defined themselves in the context of Old World cultural traditions. Several contributors to English Ethnicity and Culture in North America track the English in North America from Episcopal pulpits to cricket fields and dance floors. For example Donald M. MacRaild and Tanja Bueltmann explore the role of St. George societies before and after the American Revolution in asserting a separate English identity across class boundaries. In addition Kathryn Lamontagne looks at English ethnicity in the working-class culture and labor union activities of workers in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ultimately all the work included here challenges the idea of a coherent, comfortable Anglo-cultural mainstream and indicates the fluid and adaptable nature of what it meant and means to be English in North America.

Book The Making of English National Identity

Download or read book The Making of English National Identity written by Krishan Kumar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.

Book English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century

Download or read book English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century written by Andrea Ruddick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.

Book Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post Imperial Britain

Download or read book Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post Imperial Britain written by Harry Goulbourne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity.

Book The Expansion of England

Download or read book The Expansion of England written by Bill Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion of England explores the history of the British Empire and the practice of historical enquiry itself. There are essays on Asia, Australasia, the West Indies, South Africa and Britain. Examining the sexual, racial and ethnic identities shaping the experiences of English men and women in the nineteenth century, the authors argue that habits of thought forged in the Empire still give meaning to English identities today.

Book English and Ethnicity

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Brutt-Griffler
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2006-12-11
  • ISBN : 0230601804
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book English and Ethnicity written by J. Brutt-Griffler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.

Book Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain

Download or read book Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain written by Jivraj, Stephen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As debates around ethnic identity and inequality gain both political and media interest, this important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain. While providing a comprehensive overview, it also clarifies concepts associated with greater ethnic diversity, increased segregation, exclusive growth of minority groups through immigration and a national identity crisis. The contributions, all from experts in the field based at or affiliated to the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, highlight persistent inequalities in access to housing, employment, education and good health faced by some ethnic groups. The book will be a valuable resource for policy makers and researchers in national and local government, community groups, academics, students, and will act as an authoritative text to cite in reports, dissertations and funding applications.

Book Ethnicity  Law  and Human Rights

Download or read book Ethnicity Law and Human Rights written by Sebastian M. Poulter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART I: GENERAL SURVEY

Book These Englands

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  • Author : Arthur Aughey
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-25
  • ISBN : 1526142279
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book These Englands written by Arthur Aughey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘conversation’ is one of today’s jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country’s history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.

Book Englishness

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  • Author : Simon Featherstone
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-15
  • ISBN : 0748632549
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Englishness written by Simon Featherstone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership.

Book Rural Identities

Download or read book Rural Identities written by Sarah Neal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. At the heart of the book is an examination of the formations of rural social relations, where the processes and practices through which rural attachments and senses of rural belonging, are established and maintained. Drawing on a substantial research project Rural Identities presents important new empirical material in its analysis of why the concepts of community and ethnicity are relevant to understanding the contested status of the English countryside. In doing so, it outlines the exclusionary limitations and inclusionary possibilities of the relational discourses of rurality and nation. The rich empirical material and the conceptual apparatus employed in this volume render it appealing to policy makers as well as to scholars of sociology, geography, qualitative research methods and race and ethnicity studies.

Book Indians in Britain

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  • Author : Shompa Lahiri
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780714680491
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Indians in Britain written by Shompa Lahiri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of her continuing study of minorities in Britain before World War II, Lahiri (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) analyzes the nature and impact of the Indian presence and the British reactions to their growing number. Focusing especially on students, she shows that public fears about instability in India encouraged the government to restrict the number of Indian students and control their political activities. Their resistance, she says, shows how an elite group from dependent colony can appropriate ideas and institutions to its own purpose. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain

Download or read book Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain written by David Mason and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of race and ethnicity in Britain today.