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Shain, Farzana – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The disturbances that took place across English towns and cities in 2011 raised significant debate and discussion about their causes and the motivations of the "rioters". Media and official explanations citing criminality and opportunism, repeated the now familiar narratives of cultural deficit, blaming absent fathers, poor parenting and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Aspiration, Social Mobility, Social Discrimination
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Chakrabarty, Namita – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
Based on extracts from an ethnography produced during the ESRC 2009-10 research project, ""Preparedness Pedagogies" and Race: An Interdisciplinary Approach," this article explores the racialized culture of civil defence in the UK whilst also critiquing the world of higher education. The ethnographic artefacts of interviews,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Figurative Language, Interdisciplinary Approach