Equality and Ethnic Identities - Softcover

Alice Akoshia Ayikaaley Sawyerr,Christopher Adam Bagley

9789463510783: Equality and Ethnic Identities

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9463510788 ISBN 13: 9789463510783

Publisher: BrillSense, 2017

This book combines history, sociology, psychology and educational policy in research on a 40-year, crucial phase of development of ethnic identity, ethnic relations and educational and social policies for children in England, from pre-school to secondary school. The authors show how nursery children of different ethnicities interact in beginning their identity journeys in a culture of both inequality, and evolving ethnic relationships and patterns of harmony, in Britain’s developing multicultural society. In looking at self-concept development in secondary school children through the lens of various kinds of child maltreatment, Alice Sawyerr and Christopher Bagley argue that ethnic minority children are psychological survivors, and African-Caribbean girls especially are making strong identity steps – it is the “poor whites” who will make up the precariat, the reserve army of labour, who are left behind in structures of inequality.

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