{"product_id":"black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption","title":"Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThis book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race theory and cultural sociology. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being ‘beyond race’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural repertoires, Meghji argues that there are three modes of black middle-class identity: strategic assimilation, ethnoracial autonomous, and class-minded. Individuals within each of these identity modes use specific cultural repertoires to organise their cultural consumption. Those employing strategic assimilation draw on repertoires of code-switching and cultural equity, consuming traditional middle-class culture to maintain equality with the white middle-class in levels of cultural capital. Ethnoracial autonomous individuals draw on repertoires of ‘browning’ and Afro-centrism, self-selecting traditional middle-class cultural pursuits they decode as ‘Eurocentric’ while showing a preference for cultural forms that uplift black diasporic histories and cultures. Lastly, class-minded individuals draw on repertoires of post-racialism and de-racialisation, polarising between ‘Black’ and middle-class cultural forms. \u003ci\u003eBlack middle class Britannia\u003c\/i\u003e examines how such individuals display an unequivocal preference for the latter, lambasting other black people who avoid middle-class culture as being culturally myopic or culturally uncultivated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 308g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 155 x 233 x 16 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526156082\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Meghji","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44099528818938,"sku":"9781526156082","price":22.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1aeae223c0ee891241b5b2a0f76c3acd.jpg?v=1621353111","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}