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Race, Coloniality and the Academy : An Ethnography.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alam, Yunis.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- How do academic spaces perpetuate racial and religious inequalities, and what can be done to challenge them?This provocative book examines the intersections of ethnicity, faith and class with a focus on British South Asian Muslim identity.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Race, Coloniality and the Academy: An Ethnography
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Neoliberalism and the Academy
- Histories
- Victoria and Albert
- Ethnography as embodied methodology
- Structure of this book
- Conclusion
- 2 Ethnic Relations in the UK: From Theory to Policy
- Identity, politics and intersections as theory
- Islamophobia unpacked
- Immigration and multiculturalism
- 3 Race, Language and Power
- The language of race
- English and the writing of culture
- Writing and reproducing race
- 4 Postcoloniality and its Uses
- Postcoloniality: routes and roots
- Post-, de- or anti-?
- Language, literature and whiteness
- Articulated, articulating, articulate
- 5 Orientalism and Representation
- Orientalism as a system of knowledge
- Representation as process and outcome
- Representing race
- The ties that bind: ethnicity and creativity
- 6 Representing Muslims, Fix-ionalizing Difference
- Popular culture, media and minorities
- Radical teachings in plain sight
- Conservatives at the races
- Reading Muslim women
- Jack Straw: rights, freedoms and law
- Trevor Phillips: the trouble with Muslims
- 7 Hybridity and Beyond
- Keeping it 'real': voice and authenticity
- Hybridity or hybridizing?
- Diaspora, hybridity and cultural re-remixing
- Revisiting the postcolonial(s)
- 8 Decolonizing: Institutions and Minds
- Decolonizing disciplines
- Decoloniality recolonized
- Don't stop believing/complaining
- You know what time it is: awake, woke or dreaming
- 9 Beyond Mantras: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Mind your language
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: performativity as outcome
- Resistance and critique as action
- Neoliberalism as regression
- 10 Conclusion
- Testing times: Riz Ahmed, airports and take off
- Deadwood
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2885-9
- OCLC:
- 1541773700
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