(An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications

Ethnicities

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 321-348

  Ifekwunigwe, Jayne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diaspora; Englishness; identity; multiethnicity; mixed race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996234981     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020030301     Document Type: Article

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