New Ethnicities, Old Racisms - Softcover

'Contributes strongly to the cause of keeping cultural theory in contact with everyday concerns.' Runnymede Quarterly Bulletin

Questioning received notions of multiculturalism, this book develops a wide ranging critique of essentialist definitions of race, nation and ethnicity across key areas of cultural policy and practice. Starting from the `new ethnicities` thesis of Stuart Hall - who writes a foreword to the book - the contributors explore changing ethnicities within the old frameworks of racism. Linking theoretical analysis with substantive issues, the book focuses on three major concerns: *new ways of tackling popular cultures of racism *the histories of previously marginalized racisms - and sexisms *the impact of changing patterns of migration on the local/global city Throughout, the contributors are concerned with new ethnicities - both white and black - which have Questioning received notions of multiculturalism, this book develops a wide ranging critique of essentialist definitions of race, nation and ethnicity across key areas of cultural policy and practice. Starting from the `new ethnicities` thesis of Stuart Hall the contributors explore changing ethnicities within the old frameworks of racism.