{"title":"Ali Meghji","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAli Meghji\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into social structures, race, and identity, particularly within the context of British society. These works engage critically with themes such as decolonisation, racial dynamics, and the complexities of the black middle-class experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Meghji's writings invite readers to explore sociological perspectives that challenge conventional narratives and illuminate the ongoing impact of race and social systems in contemporary Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-racialized-social-system-by-ali-meghji-9781509539956","title":"The Racialized Social System","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFar from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what precisely is critical race theory and what makes it different from other theories of race, racialization and racism?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this incisive book, Ali Meghji defines the contours of critical race theory through the notion of the \u003cem\u003eracialized social system\u003c\/em\u003e. He thereby excavates a solid social theory that clears up many empirical and conceptual questions that continue to surface, offering a flexible, practical model for studying structural racism. In making his case, Meghji pays attention to the multiple dimensions of the racialized social system, focusing on core phenomena such as interaction orders, material interests, ideologies, emotions, and organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a context where any work mentioning 'race' gets defined as critical race theory, \u003cem\u003eThe Racialized Social System\u003c\/em\u003e expounds an approach that promises to be more generative for the social scientific study of race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384048828652,"sku":"9781509539956","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12421813482725.jpg?v=1773399597"},{"product_id":"decolonizing-sociology-by-ali-meghji-9781509541959","title":"Decolonizing Sociology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explores why and how sociology needs to be decolonized. It analyses how sociology was integral in reproducing the colonial order, as dominant sociologists constructed theories either assuming or proving the supposed barbarity and backwardness of colonized people. Ali Meghji reveals how colonialism continues to shape the discipline today, dominating both social theory and the practice of sociology, how exporting the Eurocentric sociological canon erased social theories from the Global South, and how sociologists continue to ignore the relevance of coloniality in their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis guide will be necessary reading for any student or proponent of sociology. In opening up the work of other decolonial advocates and under-represented thinkers to readers, Meghji offers key suggestions for what teachers and students can do to decolonize sociology. With curriculum reform, innovative teaching and a critical awareness of these issues, it is possible to make sociology more equitable on a global scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424035684588,"sku":"9781509541959","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509541959.jpg?v=1774769367"},{"product_id":"black-middle-class-britannia-by-ali-meghji-9781526156082","title":"Black Middle-Class Britannia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being 'beyond race'. Paying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLastly, class-minded individuals draw on repertoires of post-racialism and de-racialisation, polarising between 'Black' and middle-class cultural forms. \u003cem\u003eBlack Middle-Class Britannia\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595806327020,"sku":"9781526156082","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526156082-black-middle-class-britannia.jpg?v=1777908169"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ali-meghji.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}