Ethnic Identity Flashcards
Curtice and Heath (2000)
termed ‘Little Englanders’ with their narrow-mindedness and desire to exclude others from the notion of being ‘English’ on the grounds of e.g. skin colour
Hewitt (1996)
showed that the young, white working class people he studied felt a sense injustice because they could not celebrate their white, working class culture.
Fenton (2003)
discusses the overlap between ethnicity, nationality and race and states that in many societies the words are used interchangeably.
Said (1995)
describes how the concept of Othering (where the self is defined in the positive and anything different is defined in the negative) occurs in the West’s construction of the Orient as exotic.
Bond and Rosie (2006) - Nationality
found a marked prioritisation of Scottishness as opposed to British identity among the Scottish people they studied.
Modood (1997) - Race
found that African- Caribbeans living in the UK were more likely to mention skin colour as being part of their identity than Southern Asians.
Jacobson (1997) - Race
found that young Pakistanis see Islam as crucial in forming their identities. It affects their diet, dress and general behaviour.
Johal and Bains (1998) - Hybridity
focused on what they termed ‘dual identities’, Asians having more than one identity depending on if they are with friends, peers or at school. They suggest some of these young people ‘code switch’ behaving in a different way with peers than with family.
Francis and Archer (2006) - Family
show how educational achievement is valued by British and Chinese families
Modood et al (1997) - Family
show how you South Asians are less likely than their elders to speak using a southern Asian language
Mason (2005) - Education
says that many schools are ethnocentric, they evaluate other culture from the perspective of their own.
Johal and Bains (1998) - Education
argue that some children wear a metaphorical ‘white mask’ in order to fit in with the majority culture.
Modood (2005) - Religion
observes African-American theorist Du Bois, 100 years ago said black and white community divide, Islam/West divide would be the greatest social divide in the world.
evidence = Twin Tower attack, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts and ISIS terrorist organisation.
Alexander (1996) - peers
studied the formation of black culture and identity with black British youth, peer group was crucial in the ‘art of being black’
Jhally (1992) - Media
being ignored and unrepresented or stereotyped and misrepresented was a feature of ethnic representation in the media in the 19670s and 90s
