{"product_id":"black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption-9781526143075","title":"Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ali Meghji\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Discrimination \u0026amp; Racism\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'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889296588951,"sku":"9781526143075","price":9459.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781526143075.webp?v=1781175533","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/black-middle-class-britannia-identities-repertoires-cultural-consumption-9781526143075","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}