A Postcolonial People

by Sayyid, S.

• ISBN13: 9780231700115
• ISBN10: 0231700113
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

British Asian life is diverse and complex and has been celebrated in works of literature, poetry, and film, not to mention the performing arts and music. A Postcolonial Peopleis an innovative and intriguing combination of scholarship and personal narrative detailing the multifaceted experience of British Asians. It covers a wide range of topics, from the evolution of cuisine, pop music, dance, and the tradition of arranged marriages to the discrimination still practiced against Asians and their role in shaping the British cultural landscape. Eschewing both anthropological approaches and overtly theoretical analyses, contributors map out the heterodox impact of British Asians on the United Kingdom, describing achievements and setbacks, points of intersection and divergence, and the everyday struggles of a postcolonial people.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
The Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: BrAsians: Postcolonial People, Ironic Citizens	p. 1
Frames	p. 11
Narrating the Postcolonial Political and the Immigrant Imaginary	p. 13
Arrival	p. 32
The 'Asian' in Britain	p. 35
Chicken Tikka Masala	p. 62
Politics of Blackness and Asian Identity	p. 64
Curry Powder	p. 72
The Dialectic of 'Here and There': Anthropology 'at Home'	p. 74
Drugs	p. 91
(Im)possible Intersections: Religion, (Post-)Colonial Subjectivity and the Ideology of Multiculturalism	p. 93
Football	p. 108
Writing a BrAsian City: 'Race', Culture and Religion in Accounts of Postcolonial Bradford	p. 110
Portraits	p. 141
Mapping the Colonial: South Asians in Britain, 1857-1947	p. 143
Anish Kapoor	p. 157
Imperial Implosions: Postcoloniality and the Orbits of Migration	p. 158
Demographics of BrAsian Settlement, 1951-2001	p. 168
Muslims!	p. 182
The Politics of the BrAsian Electorate	p. 188
Brown Economy: Enterprise and Employment	p. 211
Newham	p. 230
Policing Diversity: Racialisation and the Criminal Justice System	p. 234
Health Care and BrAsians: Making Sense of Policy and Practice	p. 244
Palliative Care	p. 256
Imagining the Politics of BrAsian Youth	p. 258
The Scandal of 'Arranged Marriages' and the Pathologisation of BrAsian Families	p. 272
Queer	p. 289
A City of Surprises: Urban Multiculturalism and the 'Leicester Model'	p. 291
Capital Gains: BrAsian Suburban North-West London	p. 305
Signatures	p. 315
Asian Sounds	p. 317
Rusholme	p. 327
The Singular Journey: South Asian Visual Art in Britain	p. 329
Uprisings	p. 340
South Asian / BrAsian Performing Arts	p. 343
Vasco da Gama	p. 358
Planet Bollywood	p. 362
Writings	p. 371
Metropolitan Borderlands: The Formation of BrAsian Landscapes	p. 374
Zee TV	p. 392
Bibliography	p. 395
Index	p. 431
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