Ethnicity and Identity Flashcards
How does ethnicity affect your identity?
Ethnicity is culture and includes religion, language, location, ethnic origins and skin colour.
The cultural characteristics affect who we are and how we see ourselves.
Who are British Asians?
British and Asian culture mixes, this is also those with Chinese origin in the U.K.
PHILLIPS “ETHNICITY IN UK”
Shifting dynamics of identity in late modern Britain e.g. Train journey showed white m/c woman judging an Eastern European woman for speaking loudly on her phone and a black woman angrily pushed her.
What would postmodernist says about changing ethnic identities?
Due to globalisation and media saturated societies, identity is about choice.
Why is “hybridity” affecting changing ethnic identities?
The hybridity is showing ethnicity to be clear it and less significant.
MODOOD “CHANGING ETHNIC IDENTITIES”
Generational differences over the issue of identity suggest that 2nd generational minorities from Afro-Caribbean and Asian background felt more British than their parents, ethnic origin is key to identity.
DAWNEY “EUROPEAN MIGRANTS”
Racism to European migrants in the rural community came from a perceived threat and fear in numbers that didn’t have a basis in reality.
HEWITT “MULTICULTURALISM”
White backlash against “multiculturalism” policies that achieve equality but are perched as unfair to the white community.
White w/c people respond with anger at perceived “positive discrimination” in favour of ethnic minorities feeling a need to defend their ethnic identity.
GILROY “IDENTITY OF YOUNG BLACK PEOPLE AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC”
Black Atlantic is the identity not rooted in the U.K. Or in their own country of origin, it was the shared experiences of racism and powerlessness which transcended differences in background and history to create a black identity.
JACOBSON “YOUNG PAKISTANI”
They were adopting a strong Islamic identity as response to social exclusion from white British society.
A strong Muslim identity provides a sense of stability and security.
JAMES “RACISM UNIFIED CULTURE”
The experiences of racism unified culture and identity of Afro-Caribbean’s in the U.K. Common experiences of racism brought them together.
CASHMORE AND TROYA “TURN INWARDS”
There was a tendency for ethnic minorities to turn inwards to seek support within their own ethnic communities in response to the racism felt.
BACK “NEIGHBOURHOOD NATIONALISM”
Black and white youths and all local youths developed a shared identity based on mixed ethnicity and neighbourhood nationalism - a feeling of solidarity and common identity with people from the same area.
BRAH “CULTURAL CODE-SWITICHING”
Asian British youths are skilled code-switchers as they see their identity as a hybrid/cross between 2 cultures.
