A Case of Mistaken Identity: Why British ‘African Asians’ Are Not an ‘Ethnic’ Community

South Asia Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-181

  Mattausch, John ^a  

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EID: 84992786271     PISSN: 02627280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026272800002000206     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. John Mattausch, ‘From Subjects to Citizens: British “East African Asians”’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 121–41.
2. Kenan Malik, The Meaning of Race, London, 1996, p. 174.
3. Malik, The Meaning of Race, p. 175.
4. Robert Miles, Racism after Race Relations, London, 1993.
5. Tariq Modood, Sharon Beishon and Satnam Virdee, Changing Ethnic Identities, London, 1994, p. 3, 4, 5, 6.
6. Nimmi Hutnik, Ethnic Minority Identity: A Social Psychological Perspective, Oxford. 1991.
7. Tariq Modood, Richard Berthoud, Jane Lakey et al. Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage, London, 1997, p. 15.
8. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 291.
9. Individual Questionnaire [Fourth PSI Survey], Version E1, pp. 4 and 6.
10. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 293.
11. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 292.
12. I examine this problem of pseudo-positivist questionnaires in John Mattausch, A Commitment to Campaign: A Sociological Study of CND, Manchester, 1989, pp. 2–10.
13. Research evidence suggests that cultural elements included under the ‘ethnicity’ umbrella may be expressed for diverse, context-driven reasons: for instance, emphasised and embraced by some younger minority community members resisting racialised disadvantage and exclusion (cf. Gerd Baumann, Contesting Cultures: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic Britain, London, 1996, chaps 5 and 6); or, as Werbner's study of Manchester Pakistanis
14. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 314.
15. Mary Stopes-Roe and Raymond Cochrane, Citizens of this Country: The Asian-British, Clevedon, 1990.
16. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 319.
17. Maureen Michaelson, ‘The Relevance of Caste among East African Gujaratis in Britain’, New Community, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 350–60;
18. John Mattausch, The British and the Gujaratis: A Social and Historical Survey, with Special Reference to the Gujarati Tradition of ‘Arranging’ Marriages, Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies (CEMS), Occasional Papers, No. 1, Royal Holloway College, London, 1993.
19. Linda Colley, ‘Blueprint for Britain’, The Observer, 12 December 1999, p. 29.
20. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 290.
21. Rashmi Desai, Indian Immigrants in Britain, London, 1963, p. 34.
22. Rachel Dwyer, ‘Caste, Religion and Sect in Gujarat: Followers of Vallabhacharaya and Swaminarayan’ in Roger Ballard, ed., Desh Pardesh, London, 1994, p. 165.
23. Modood et al., Ethnic Minorities, p. 342.