C Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 5164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1669-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 398 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Muslim Trap: Afterword
In this short afterword to the Special Issue on “The Muslim Trap”, Claire Alexander reflects on issues of Muslim representation in Europe and the role of “the City” in mediating and contesting these formations. She considers three key themes from the collection: the question of scale, the power of ethnography and Re-imagining Resistance.
The Asian Gang Revisited: Ethnography in 4D
Seeing 'Others': A view from the UK
Voice, with Claire Alexander, Dan McCulloch and Belinda Scarlett
The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities
In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over ‘Asian gangs’ in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of ‘the gang’, friendships, and the role of ‘brothers’ in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered iden…
The Asian Gang Revisited: Response to Symposium
Reframing British history: Teacher education after Black Lives Matter
The Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have given renewed impetus to campaigns against racial inequality.In education, the issue of curriculumand particularly the history curriculumhas been at the centre of campaigns to "decolonise the curriculum".While barriers to the teaching of "diverse" British histories in England's classrooms have long been recognised, relatively little research has been done on the crucial role of history te…
Our migration story: History, the national curriculum, and re-narrating the British nation
This article explores schools as a key organisational context for the (re)production of national identity, and uses ongoing debates around the national curriculum for history, to illuminate the ongoing lacunae in Britain’s national memory. Taking the recent Windrush scandal as a starting point, we examine how these events reflect broader processes of historical forgetting in contemporary discussions around migration, empire and its loss. While th…
Beyond Black
Today the people have to recognize the complex internal cultural segmentation, the internal frontlines which cut through so-called Black British identity. In particular, it is to examine the way in which the resurgence of notions of ethnicity have impacted in the formation of black and Asian identities and the theorization of cultural difference. Sue Benson has argued that research in Britain from the 1950s heralded an academic division of labour…
Recipe and Research: Beyond Banglatown with Claire Alexander
Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK: State of the Nation
50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal justice, housing and representation in the arts and media. URI
The 'Public Life' of the Bengal Diaspora: Performing Religion, Gender and Generation in the Boishakhi Mela
It has become a theoretical truism that diaspora encompasses both mobility and settlement, change and continuity, roots and routes. Nevertheless, sociological accounts of diaspora identities have been largely focused on diaspora identities as part of a process of placemaking and claims-staking in the place of arrival. Such accounts have largely downplayed questions of origin, continuity and connection, and of the role of history and structure in …
Breaking black: The death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain
In this paper, I examine the changing contours of racial and ethnic studies in Britain over the past forty years. Building on my 2002 ERS paper "Beyond Black", I reflect on the transformation and fragmentation of political blackness, in and out of the academy, and consider the implications for racial and ethnic identities, solidarities and political action
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 44 No. 3
Experiences and Responses to Microaggressions on Historically White Campuses: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis- Y. Kafi Moragne-Patterson and Tracey M. Barnett Civic Engagement and Institutional Trust among South Africans- Yoosun Chu and Ce Shen How the Immigration and Deportation Systems Work: A Social Worker’s Guide- Carol Cleaveland Immigrant Health Disparities: Does Neighborliness Improve Health?- Kofi Danso Are Older Adults Who Part…
History lessons: Inequality, diversity and the national curriculum
This article explores the continued importance of teaching a diverse curriculum at a time when issues of racial and ethnic equality and diversity have been increasingly sidelined in the political discussion around ‘British’ values and identities, and how these should be taught in schools. The 2014 History National curriculum, in particular, provoked widespread controversy around what British history is, who gets included in this story and how bes…
Beyond the “The ‘diaspora’ diaspora”: A response to Rogers Brubaker
In this short reflection, I revisit Rogers Brubaker's influential 2005 article on "The 'diaspora' diaspora". I consider the key arguments of this important intervention, before addressing three key conceptual issues in diaspora studies: (i) the role of place, origin and scale; (ii) diaspora, race and difference; (iii) sociological and historical approaches to diaspora. In the concluding section, I briefly consider some new directions in diaspora …
The culture question: A view from the UK
Patterson and Fosse's 2015 collection The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth represents a significant provocation to our understanding of persistent racial inequalities amongst African American youth, raising important questions around the relationship between culture, identities and racialized structures. This short article takes a comparative perspective, exploring race, culture and identity from a British standpoint, and highlights som…
The Bengal Diaspora
India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle East, North America and Europe. Using a creative int…
In memoriam: Professor Stuart McPhail Hall (1932–2014)
The Empire Strikes Back: 30 Years On
The Empire Strikes Back was a landmark text in the formation and transformation of ethnic and racial studies in Britain. With issues of race, migration, nation and inequality starkly back on the current political and public agenda, this review article reflects on the continued significance of the book's insights and challenges for contemporary race politics in the UK
Contested memories: The Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
Drawing on new empirical research on 'the Bengal diaspora', this paper explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in East London, as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe, which marks the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialization, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form o…
Identities: New directions in uncertain times
MappingIdentities: The Relaunch Issue
Making Bengali Brick Lane: Claiming and contesting space in East London
Based on a recent empirical project on 'the Bengal diaspora', the paper explores the construction and contestation of meanings around the iconic East London street, Brick Lane. Taking the 2006 protests around the film Brick Lane as its starting point, the paper draws on original interviews conducted in 2008 with a range of Bengali community representatives, to examine the narratives of space, community and belonging that emerge around the idea of…
Stuart Hall and ‘Race’
This introductory paper seeks to locate Stuart Hall's writing on 'race' and ethnicity in the broader context of his work and life. The paper seeks to examine Hall's significance as one of the most important theorists of race globally, and as a theorist of Black Britain, before exploring the intersection of the personal and political dimensions of his work. The paper finally considers the continuities of Hall's writing on race and considers the im…
Beyond black: Re-Thinking the Colour/Culture Divide
This article is an exploration of theoretical approaches to 'difference' in relation to black and Asian communities in Britain. It argues that, in the wake of the splintering of 'black' as a politically inclusive term, two opposed versions of difference have emerged to dominate understandings of race and ethnicity, and have been applied differentially to African-Caribbean and Asian identities. Black/African-Caribbean identities have been theorize…
Imagining the Asian gang: Ethnicity, masculinity and youth after ‘the riots’
The paper explores the discourses surrounding the ‘riots’ of 2001 as a reflection of contemporary understandings of raced/ethnic, gendered and generational identities, and changing discourses about race and ethnicity in Britain. The paper examines these themes in relation to current academic theorizations of culture, identity and difference. Finally, the paper explores the implementation of these understandings in current government policy papers…
Breaking black: The death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain
In this paper, I examine the changing contours of racial and ethnic studies in Britain over the past forty years. Building on my 2002 ERS paper "Beyond Black", I reflect on the transformation and fragmentation of political blackness, in and out of the academy, and consider the implications for racial and ethnic identities, solidarities and political action
Making Bengali Brick Lane: Claiming and contesting space in East London
Based on a recent empirical project on 'the Bengal diaspora', the paper explores the construction and contestation of meanings around the iconic East London street, Brick Lane. Taking the 2006 protests around the film Brick Lane as its starting point, the paper draws on original interviews conducted in 2008 with a range of Bengali community representatives, to examine the narratives of space, community and belonging that emerge around the idea of…
Contesting Cultural Communities: Language, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Britain
In recent years, the Home Office has adopted a reinvigorated policy of citizenship education and integration towards both new immigrants and settled minority ethnic communities. One of the cornerstones of this new policy is English language, which is seen as a key tool for the successful integration of Britain's diverse communities. This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, it explores the changing role of English language in the current deb…
Contested memories: The Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
Drawing on new empirical research on 'the Bengal diaspora', this paper explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in East London, as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe, which marks the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialization, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form o…
Beyond the “The ‘diaspora’ diaspora”: A response to Rogers Brubaker
In this short reflection, I revisit Rogers Brubaker's influential 2005 article on "The 'diaspora' diaspora". I consider the key arguments of this important intervention, before addressing three key conceptual issues in diaspora studies: (i) the role of place, origin and scale; (ii) diaspora, race and difference; (iii) sociological and historical approaches to diaspora. In the concluding section, I briefly consider some new directions in diaspora …
Users’ experiences of interpreters: The critical role of trust
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our research methodology, and place the study in its political and community context. We look at the qualities the people we interviewed considered made f…
Introduction: Mapping the issues
While the field of ethnic and racial studies has increased dramatically in recent years, issues of methodology have to date remained relatively unexplored. Despite a long tradition of ethnographic research on racialized and ethnic minorities in North America and Europe, comparatively little has been written on what it means to research and write race ethnographically. This Introduction maps the key issues and controversies surrounding ethnography…
History lessons: Inequality, diversity and the national curriculum
This article explores the continued importance of teaching a diverse curriculum at a time when issues of racial and ethnic equality and diversity have been increasingly sidelined in the political discussion around ‘British’ values and identities, and how these should be taught in schools. The 2014 History National curriculum, in particular, provoked widespread controversy around what British history is, who gets included in this story and how bes…
The culture question: A view from the UK
Patterson and Fosse's 2015 collection The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth represents a significant provocation to our understanding of persistent racial inequalities amongst African American youth, raising important questions around the relationship between culture, identities and racialized structures. This short article takes a comparative perspective, exploring race, culture and identity from a British standpoint, and highlights som…
Introduction: Framing difference: racial and ethnic studies in twentyfirst-century Britain
The events in Britain since the beginning of the new millennium starkly and dramatically reflect the continued salience of racial and ethnic difference. In media, political and academic discourse, the struggles over nationhood and multiculturalism, the duties of citizenship and the right to cultural expression, similarity and difference have been played out against global and national backdrops, and across many local stages. The articles in this …
Breast-feeding and infant illness: A dose-response relationship
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether breast-feeding has a dose-related protective effect against illness and whether it confers special health benefits to poor infants. METHODS: The association between breast-feeding dose and illnesses in the first 6 months of life was analyzed with generalized estimating equations regression for 7092 infants from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Breast-feeding dose (ratio…
Re‐imagining the Muslim community
This paper critiques holistic and organic imaginations of the Muslim community through the exploration of alternative and shifting configurations of youth identifications. Focusing on the enactment of notions of community through several incidents of confrontation and violence, taken from my fieldwork on Bengali young men, the paper examines the role of gender, age, peer group and territory in the construction and disruption of ethnic identities …
The problem of South Asian popular culture: A view from the UK
This paper explores some of the challenges facing researchers and writers working in the field of South Asian cultural studies in the diaspora in the contemporary moment. Taking as its starting point the burgeoning interest in all aspects of South Asian cultures, lives and expressions since the late 1990s', the paper explores some of the dilemmas that accompany this emergence – around the politics of knowledge, the problem of cultural identity an…
States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity
States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity. Keya Ganguly. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 214 pp., notes, index
Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements
Our migration story: History, the national curriculum, and re-narrating the British nation
This article explores schools as a key organisational context for the (re)production of national identity, and uses ongoing debates around the national curriculum for history, to illuminate the ongoing lacunae in Britain’s national memory. Taking the recent Windrush scandal as a starting point, we examine how these events reflect broader processes of historical forgetting in contemporary discussions around migration, empire and its loss. While th…
The 'Public Life' of the Bengal Diaspora: Performing Religion, Gender and Generation in the Boishakhi Mela
It has become a theoretical truism that diaspora encompasses both mobility and settlement, change and continuity, roots and routes. Nevertheless, sociological accounts of diaspora identities have been largely focused on diaspora identities as part of a process of placemaking and claims-staking in the place of arrival. Such accounts have largely downplayed questions of origin, continuity and connection, and of the role of history and structure in …
The Empire Strikes Back: 30 Years On
The Empire Strikes Back was a landmark text in the formation and transformation of ethnic and racial studies in Britain. With issues of race, migration, nation and inequality starkly back on the current political and public agenda, this review article reflects on the continued significance of the book's insights and challenges for contemporary race politics in the UK
Interpreting Trust: Abstract and Personal Trust for People who Need Interpreters to Access Services
This article looks at the political and conceptual process of trust drawing on a research project exploring the experiences of people who speak little English and thus need interpreters in order to access services. We examine posited solidarity/diversity tensions in the politicisation of notions of general social trust, and debates about the process of trust, including distinctions between abstract and personal trust, the role of familiarity, and…
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities
The Asian Gang Revisited: Response to Symposium
MappingIdentities: The Relaunch Issue
Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities
The Art of Being Black explores how young black Britons create their cultural identities. Claire Alexander rejects the common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict, or as the focus of a problem; she offers a fresh exploration of the strengths and ambiguities of black youth representations as they are imagined and lived through, focusing in particular on community, `class', social life, and masculinity. Young black men have been …
New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain 1968-1990
The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black i…
One-level instrumentation and fusion with the internal fixator in the treatment of fractures of the thoracolumbar spine.
Dorsal fusion with the internal fixator has become the standard treatment of instabilities and deformities of the thoracolumbar spine. With our new device, the modular spine fixator (MSF), which has been specially designed for short-distance instrumentations, we have increasingly been treating unstable injuries of the thoracolumbar spine by one-level stabilization. Prerequisite is an accurate evaluation of the indication, including CT and MRI to …
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities
Re‐imagining the Muslim community
This paper critiques holistic and organic imaginations of the Muslim community through the exploration of alternative and shifting configurations of youth identifications. Focusing on the enactment of notions of community through several incidents of confrontation and violence, taken from my fieldwork on Bengali young men, the paper examines the role of gender, age, peer group and territory in the construction and disruption of ethnic identities …
Breast-feeding and infant illness: A dose-response relationship
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether breast-feeding has a dose-related protective effect against illness and whether it confers special health benefits to poor infants. METHODS: The association between breast-feeding dose and illnesses in the first 6 months of life was analyzed with generalized estimating equations regression for 7092 infants from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Breast-feeding dose (ratio…
The Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity
States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity
States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity. Keya Ganguly. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ix. 214 pp., notes, index
Beyond black: Re-Thinking the Colour/Culture Divide
This article is an exploration of theoretical approaches to 'difference' in relation to black and Asian communities in Britain. It argues that, in the wake of the splintering of 'black' as a politically inclusive term, two opposed versions of difference have emerged to dominate understandings of race and ethnicity, and have been applied differentially to African-Caribbean and Asian identities. Black/African-Caribbean identities have been theorize…
Introduction: Framing difference: racial and ethnic studies in twentyfirst-century Britain
The events in Britain since the beginning of the new millennium starkly and dramatically reflect the continued salience of racial and ethnic difference. In media, political and academic discourse, the struggles over nationhood and multiculturalism, the duties of citizenship and the right to cultural expression, similarity and difference have been played out against global and national backdrops, and across many local stages. The articles in this …
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
Imagining the Asian gang: Ethnicity, masculinity and youth after ‘the riots’
The paper explores the discourses surrounding the ‘riots’ of 2001 as a reflection of contemporary understandings of raced/ethnic, gendered and generational identities, and changing discourses about race and ethnicity in Britain. The paper examines these themes in relation to current academic theorizations of culture, identity and difference. Finally, the paper explores the implementation of these understandings in current government policy papers…
Making Race Matter: Bodies, Space and Identity
This collection of original pieces brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialized forms of embodied social practice, tackling important recent themes such as whiteness, masculinity, the body, sexuality, diaspora and globalization. Designed to bring these debates to students in a way that bridges contemporary theory with vivid case material, this is a lively and wide-ranging text of relevan…
Users’ experiences of interpreters: The critical role of trust
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our research methodology, and place the study in its political and community context. We look at the qualities the people we interviewed considered made f…
Interpreting Trust: Abstract and Personal Trust for People who Need Interpreters to Access Services
This article looks at the political and conceptual process of trust drawing on a research project exploring the experiences of people who speak little English and thus need interpreters in order to access services. We examine posited solidarity/diversity tensions in the politicisation of notions of general social trust, and debates about the process of trust, including distinctions between abstract and personal trust, the role of familiarity, and…
Introduction: Mapping the issues
While the field of ethnic and racial studies has increased dramatically in recent years, issues of methodology have to date remained relatively unexplored. Despite a long tradition of ethnographic research on racialized and ethnic minorities in North America and Europe, comparatively little has been written on what it means to research and write race ethnographically. This Introduction maps the key issues and controversies surrounding ethnography…
Cohesive Identities: The Distance between Meaning and Understanding
Contesting Cultural Communities: Language, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Britain
In recent years, the Home Office has adopted a reinvigorated policy of citizenship education and integration towards both new immigrants and settled minority ethnic communities. One of the cornerstones of this new policy is English language, which is seen as a key tool for the successful integration of Britain's diverse communities. This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, it explores the changing role of English language in the current deb…
The problem of South Asian popular culture: A view from the UK
This paper explores some of the challenges facing researchers and writers working in the field of South Asian cultural studies in the diaspora in the contemporary moment. Taking as its starting point the burgeoning interest in all aspects of South Asian cultures, lives and expressions since the late 1990s', the paper explores some of the dilemmas that accompany this emergence – around the politics of knowledge, the problem of cultural identity an…
Stuart Hall and ‘Race’
This introductory paper seeks to locate Stuart Hall's writing on 'race' and ethnicity in the broader context of his work and life. The paper seeks to examine Hall's significance as one of the most important theorists of race globally, and as a theorist of Black Britain, before exploring the intersection of the personal and political dimensions of his work. The paper finally considers the continuities of Hall's writing on race and considers the im…
London Voices, London Lives: Tales from a Working Capital – By Peter Hall
Making Bengali Brick Lane: Claiming and contesting space in East London
Based on a recent empirical project on 'the Bengal diaspora', the paper explores the construction and contestation of meanings around the iconic East London street, Brick Lane. Taking the 2006 protests around the film Brick Lane as its starting point, the paper draws on original interviews conducted in 2008 with a range of Bengali community representatives, to examine the narratives of space, community and belonging that emerge around the idea of…
Identities: New directions in uncertain times
Sociology (40 works) · Gender Studies (30 works) · Political science (27 works) · Anthropology (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Ethnic group (15 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Art (11 works)