Postcolonial People South Asians in Britain

by Sayyid, S.; Kalra, V.S.; Ali, Nasreen

• ISBN13: 9781850657965
• ISBN10: 1850657963
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-22
• Publisher: Hurst

Summary

A Postcolonial People is a lively and critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain. Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature, this specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of British Asian ways of life. The migration and settlement of South Asians in Britain is examined in the context of the postcolonial condition, in which boundaries between the West and Rest, centre and periphery, home and abroad are increasingly blurred. The contributors provide both fresh perspectives and vital information on Asian British experiences in their socio-economic, historical and cultural dimensions. The topics covered include: identity, employment, music, health British Asian theatre, the transformation of urban space, policing, electoral politics, and cinema.

Author Biography

Nasreen Ali is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of Leeds.

Virinder Kalra is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester; he is author of From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks (2000) and co-author of Diaspora and Hybridity (2005).

S. Sayyid is University Research Fellow in "Race," Ethnicity and Postcolonialism in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Leeds. He is the author of A Fundamental Fear (2nd ed., 2003).

Table of Contents

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
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