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Codes of Cultural Belonging: Racialised National Identities in a Multi-Ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood

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  • Satnam Virdee
  • Christopher Kyriakides
  • Tariq Modood

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This qualitative study investigates the relationship between race and nation in an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in Glasgow, Scotland. It finds that Scottishness has a historically founded racialised referent at the level of the neighbourhood but that this referent is undermined in everyday life by syncretic codes of cultural belonging represented by signifiers such as accent, dress and mannerisms. However, these cultural signifiers that contest the racialised referent are, on occasions, themselves challenged by negative ascriptions such as terrorist and extremist which reinforce, though never completely, the original racialised referent of Scottishness as whiteness. We conclude that whiteness is an unstable identifier of Scottishness, and Scottishness is an unstable identifier of whiteness, such that a negative view of Islam as antithetical to imagined conceptions of Scottishness, cannot easily be sustained in areas of relatively high racialised minority settlement.

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  • Satnam Virdee & Christopher Kyriakides & Tariq Modood, 2006. "Codes of Cultural Belonging: Racialised National Identities in a Multi-Ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 11(4), pages 30-38, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:11:y:2006:i:4:p:30-38
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1424
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    1. Amy Clarke, 2023. "Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 28(1), pages 279-295, March.

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