Ethnicity and youth sub-cultures

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Key words

• Hybridity• Ethnocentrism• Discrimination• Prejudice• Ethnicity• Race

Ethnicity

• Ethnicity is related to culture, descent and a shared sense of identity (Modood 2005)

• Therefore ethnicity is related to race, as well as nationality as well as religion.

• Factors which have influenced people’s ethnic identities are immigration and globalisation.

• In Britain there is much diversity of ethnic backgrounds this has lead to Hybrid Cultures such as Brasian (British Asian) a blend of different cultures creating an entirely new ethnicity.

Sub-cultures

• Rastafarians – Jamaica, Bob Marley, religion, capitalism resistance, resistance to white oppression.

• Bhangra – folk music from Punjab has been incorporated into contemporary music styles

• Shown in Brasian (New Hybrid identity British Asian)

• Hip-Hop Gansta Rap – born in the Bronx in 1970s – Rap music, dance, graffiti, female exploitation - Hybridity is strong e.g Eminem

Researchers

• Hall (1996) New ethnicities. Stuart Hall recognises how ethnic groups have influenced one another due to migration and globalisation producing hybrid identities.

• Modood et al (1997) most second generation immigrants (Caribbean and South Asian) saw themselves as both British and Black/Asian

• Les Back (1996) found white youths adopting black caribbean culture on London council estates.

• Tony Sewell (1997) found Black youths developed anti-school and resistant sub-cultures based on rastafarian or gansta/hip-hop culture – macho, materialist – gave them status they could not get from white society.

Positives and Negatives

+ More choice+ Hybrid identities due to immigration+ Rich diversity in music, fashion, media - Intolerance/racism/ethnocentrism - Gang related activity – due to intolerance - Resistance due to racism past/present - Erosion of British culture (read David Starkey’s comments)http://

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Ethnicity

• Read pg 7-8 of peach workbook and identify main ideas about ethnicity and youth

• Write notes on the concepts of • Resistance• hybrid cultures • ethnocentrism