“…The aforementioned critical issues were, of course, also addressed and successfully developed elsewhere, that is, outside anthropology, most notably in cultural studies, and outside Western academia, most notably by scholars from the global south (see, e.g., Wright 2004;Tomaselli and Mboti 2013; indeed, the journal, Critical Arts, derives from a performance studies trajectory). In that respect, it is difficult to overestimate what cultural studies in general, and the work of Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Kobena Mercer in particular, have done to deconstruct and reorient the way in which generations of social and human scientists dealt with identity and diversity (Harris 2009). These authors offered an alternative framework, that of 'new ethnicities', whose vitality is demonstrated not only by the fact that it has become mainstream, but also because it inspires advanced models of diversity in areas such as 'autochthony' or nativism (Li 2007) and 'superdiversity' (Arnaut 2012).…”
Section: The Anthropological Issues: Complex Identities and Culture Amentioning
“…The aforementioned critical issues were, of course, also addressed and successfully developed elsewhere, that is, outside anthropology, most notably in cultural studies, and outside Western academia, most notably by scholars from the global south (see, e.g., Wright 2004;Tomaselli and Mboti 2013; indeed, the journal, Critical Arts, derives from a performance studies trajectory). In that respect, it is difficult to overestimate what cultural studies in general, and the work of Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Kobena Mercer in particular, have done to deconstruct and reorient the way in which generations of social and human scientists dealt with identity and diversity (Harris 2009). These authors offered an alternative framework, that of 'new ethnicities', whose vitality is demonstrated not only by the fact that it has become mainstream, but also because it inspires advanced models of diversity in areas such as 'autochthony' or nativism (Li 2007) and 'superdiversity' (Arnaut 2012).…”
Section: The Anthropological Issues: Complex Identities and Culture Amentioning
“…that the excision of black and brown Britons as social actors is not a matter of blame relating to individuals, but part of a deeply ingrained tradition of considering British culture while ignoring the presence of black and brown people. (2009, 485)…”
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“…The 1990s did see a tentative resurrection of ethnographic work on black youth in Britain, with my own Ph.D. monograph The Art of Being Black and Les Back's New Ethnicities and Urban Cultures, both published in 1996, seeking to redeem the empirical study of black youth cultural identities through the emergent 'new ethnicities' paradigm (Harris 2009). Both texts sought to place 'culture' and 'identity' as inseparable from broader racialized structures and representations, while recognizing the constrained agency of individuals and groups in urban spaces.…”
Section: Black Youth In the Uk: A British Dilemmamentioning
Patterson and Fosse's 2015 collection The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth represents a significant provocation to our understanding of persistent racial inequalities amongst African American youth, raising important questions around the relationship between culture, identities and racialized structures. This short article takes a comparative perspective, exploring race, culture and identity from a British standpoint, and highlights some of the dangers of privileging an overly cultural account of racialized inequality. It argues for the inextricability of structure and culture, and for the necessity of a deeper engagement with the historical, political and social dynamics through which culture comes to matter. He wasn't sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was 'cultural' apparently, and you couldn't object to that, so he didn't. 'Cultural' sort of solved problems by explaining that they weren't really there. (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time, 2008, 114)
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