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.
Chapter one - Introduction
The research
The book
Chapter two - The Conflicted City
Introduction
The multi-layered city
The city
The 'Other' side of the city
Gorton, Longsight and Moss Side
Beyond the city
Conclusion
Chapter three - The imaginings of a 'post-racial' generation
Introduction
A 'post-racial' generation?
The myth of sameness and the fantasy of non-racism
Other times and 'Othered' places
Mixing ? multiculture
Conclusion
Chapter four - Anticipating race: Race and the recognition of difference in encounters with diversity
Introduction
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
Chapter five - Going against the grain: resistance to identifications and the claim for multiple subjectivities
Introduction
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
Chapter six - When is racism?
Introduction
The problem of racism
Talking racism
Racism and the weight of categorisation
Social mixing: an inadequate counter to racism
Naming racism, naming racists
Conclusion
Chapter seven - Conclusion
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