The Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity
In recent years the British mass media have 'discovered' a new and urgent social problem - the Asian 'gang'. Images of urban deprivation and 'the Underclass' have combined with fears of growing youth militancy and masculinities-in-crisis to position Asian, and especially Muslim, young men as the new folk devil. This reimagination of Asian young men has focused on violence, drug abuse and crime, set against a backdrop of cultural conflict, generational confusion and religious fundamentalism. The Asian 'gang', it seems, is the inevitable product of these social forces. But what is the reality? Based on three years' fieldwork with a group of Ban…
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- ISBN: 978-1-85973-319-6
- EAN: 9781859733196
- Produktnummer: 33593181
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.5 cm 308 g
- Auflage: First
- Gewicht: 308
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Claire Alexander Lecturer in Sociology,London School of Economics
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