Thinking Identities

DAVID ADAMSON University of Glamorgan GRAHAM DAY University of Wales, Bangor ANOOP NAYAK University of Newcastle SARAH NEAL Middlesex University MAX SILVERMAN Leeds University ROSEMARY SALES Middlesex University JOYCE I. SHERLOCK De Montfort University, Bradford RUTH SWIRSKY University of Westminster RAVI K. THIARA University of Warwick ANDREW THOMPSON University of Galmorgan JOOST VAN LOON University of Wales, Cardiff NINA YUVAL-DAVID University of Greenwich

This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox explanations in the field, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory.This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox explanations in the field, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory. Key contemporary questions include: issues about the black-white model of racism; the underplaying of anti-semitism; the need to examine ethnic majorities, as well as whiteness and the reconfiguration of the United Kingdom.