{"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\/products\/black-middle-class-britannia-by-ali-meghji-9781526156082","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}