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New Ethnicities and Language Use

Name: New Ethnicities and Language Use
Author: Harris, Roxy
ISBN: 9780230580077

by Harris, Roxy

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Overview

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility that marks them as Brasians.

About the Author, Harris, Roxy

ROXY HARRIS is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, UK. He has a particular interest in the relationships between language, power, ethnicity and culture and has researched, taught and published on these issues in London for many years.