New ethnicities, empirical studies and my research. A number of empirical research studies have attempted to work within the new ethnicities paradigm in the UK context26. Back’s (1996) research centred on young black males attending youth clubs in London. He focused on the relationship between racism and urban multiculture within vernacular culture in order to understand how the formation of identity, racism and multiculture were manifested in everyday life in 1980s London. As Xxxx’x theoretical framework focused on the black category, it was applicable to Back’s research as he was also focusing on the notion of blackness. Back (1996, p. 4) used Xxxx’x theoretical framework because ‘new ethnicities’ challenged the dominant conceptualisations of both the black and white categories. Moreover, he believed that the literature on new ethnicities attempted to free ethnicity from the claws of the sociology of ‘race’ and ‘race’ relations. Back also believed that crude models of
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New ethnicities, empirical studies and my research. A number of empirical research studies have attempted to work within the new ethnicities paradigm in the UK context26. Back’s (1996) research centred on young black males attending youth clubs in London. He focused on the relationship between racism and urban multiculture within vernacular culture in order to understand how the formation of identity, racism and multiculture were manifested in everyday life in 1980s London. As Xxxx’x Hall’s theoretical framework focused on the black category, it was applicable to Back’s research as he was also focusing on the notion of blackness. Back (1996, p. 4) used Xxxx’x Hall’s theoretical framework because ‘new ethnicities’ challenged the dominant conceptualisations of both the black and white categories. Moreover, he believed that the literature on new ethnicities attempted to free ethnicity from the claws of the sociology of ‘race’ and ‘race’ relations. Back also believed that crude models of
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