New Ethnicities and Language Use

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 1-14

3. Researching Ethnicities and Cultures

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 15-29

4. Language Use and Ethnicity: Mapping the Terrain

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 30-39

5. New Ethnicities As Lived Experience

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 40-89

6. How You Talk Is Who You Are

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 90-116

7. ‘My Culture’, ‘My Language’, ‘My Religion’: Communities, Practices and Diasporas

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 117-147

8. Popular Culture, Ethnicities and Tastes

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 148-164

9. What is a Brasian?

   • Roxy Harris

   Pages 165-180

10. Back Matter

    Pages 181-209

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The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians .

• bibliography
• children
• cities
• culture
• experience
• knowledge
• living
• migrant
• migrants
• migration
• religion
• sensibility

'Ignored by politicians and journalists who routinely pronounce the 'death of multiculturalism' this extraordinary book shows how British society is re-made by young people that both carry and redefine the diversity of cultural life. Harris' unique contribution is his attentiveness to quotidian multicultural realities. The lesson - even more important now than when it was first published - is that ethnicity is defined not by the short-hand of identity labels like Sikh, Muslim, Black, White but rather by what people do everyday'

- Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

• King’s College London, UK

  Roxy Harris

Roxy Harris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, UK. He has a particular interest in the relationships between language, power, ethnicity and culture and has researched, taught and published on these issues in London for many years.

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