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Carter, Bob. Realism and Racism: Concepts of Race in Sociological Research. London: Routledge, 2000. Gilroy, Paul. There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The cultural politics of race and nation. London: Routledge, 2002. Goodyer, Ian. “Rock Against Racism: Multiculturalism and Political Mobilization, 1976-81,” Immigrants & Minorities 22:1: 44-62. Habekost, Christian. Verbal Riddim: The Politics and AestheticsContinue reading “Bibliography”

By Ben King A blog exploring how Black culture and identity changed Britains pop culture and music throughout the 20th century. Blog 4: The 1980s and taking a look at the impact of past influences From the past few blog posts, it is pretty easy to conclude that Black identity and culture certainly made aContinue reading “Punk and London Bands”

By Ben King A blog exploring how Black culture and identity changed Britains pop culture and music throughout the 20th century. Blog 3: The 1970s Racial tensions were high come to the turn of the decade, with the National Front forming in 1967, non-white immigrants had yet another government party fighting in the corner ofContinue reading “Punk and London Bands”

By Ben King A blog exploring how Black culture and identity changed Britains pop culture and music throughout the 20th century. Blog 2: The 1960s In the last blog post, we explored the style of music brought over by Windrush as well as the challenges that were faced by the non-white migrant communities in theContinue reading “Punk and London Bands”

By Ben King A blog exploring how Black culture and identity changed Britains pop culture and music throughout the 20th century. Blog 1: 1900 to the 1950s In the 20th century, Britain was introduced to a style of music developed in the deep south of America from blues and ragtime. This music was Jazz. JazzContinue reading “Punk and London Bands”