Ethnicity Flashcards
1
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History
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- Migrants experienced rejection, racism and prejudice
- Children born in Britain developed cultural patterns based on resistance to racism
2
Q
What 2 mistakes do the functionalist approach make?
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- All young people are in one homogenous group
- Have similar experiences
> Ethnocentric
3
Q
Hebdige - 2nd gen
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- YC develop as a form of resistance to dominant ideology
- Excluded by white culture
- Experiences of a second generation of black young people
- Economically and socially marginalised
4
Q
Sivanadan
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- Colonial struggle
- Black subcultures were driven by the same sense of opposition to a racist society
5
Q
Rastafarian
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- Response to racism
- Smoking marijuana
- Attracted young black youths
- Who felt oppressed and rejected by British society
6
Q
White commercialisation of Black street style
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- Reggae = now widely enjoyed
- Dreadlocks is now a fashion choice rather than a political statement
- POMO - supermarket of style
7
Q
Johal
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- British asian identity
- Hybrid culture called Brasian
- Stems from feelings of rejection, discrimination and unwillingness to fully assimilate into a host culture
8
Q
Assimilation
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The gradual process whereby a person belonging to one culture adopts the processes of another therefore becoming a member of that culture
9
Q
Hebdige - Rudeboy
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- Suggests that the first SC style was Rude Boys
- Formed in Jamaica based on looking cool, dealing in canabis
- Expressing ethnic identity
- Asserting independence
10
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Hall et al - Rudeboy
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- Young black men were linked by the media to muggings
- YSC allowed people to resist and react against racism
- Black people = scapegoats from crime and unemployment
- Distracting people from capitalism
11
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Sewell
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- Boys focused on physical strength and rejected schoolwork
- Challenging behaviour
- Didn’t pass examinations
- Macho behaviour = response to poor teacher motivation and overt racism
