'Black like Beckham'? Moving beyond definitions of ethnicity based on skin colour and ancestry

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-137

  Karlsen, Saffron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Identity; Racism; Reaction; Representation; Structure

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; MULTICULTURALISM; RACE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IDENTITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN COLOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIA, WESTERN; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; WEST INDIES;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142557691     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355785042000222842     Document Type: Article

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