Dissertation Research: Identity Politics in Post-Colonial Britain

这个论文研究项目支持斯坦福大学人类学专业的学生，研究英国社会的人们如何解释种族差异，鉴于英国即将进行的全国人口普查，种族身份将首次被记录下来。使用人种学方法，学生（黑人）和研究助理（白人）将研究生活在利物浦的人们如何使用民族认同的概念，如“英国人”作为隐含的种族术语，以及明确的种族术语，如“亚洲人”和“黑人”。对社区活动人士和人口普查官员进行深入访谈，讨论人口普查中种族类别的政治争议，并对个人生活史样本进行深入访谈，重点关注他们对英国历史上种族的看法。调查人员还将观察一所高中的英国历史教学。这个项目意义重大，因为它试图理解一个与我们相似的民主社会是如何在其人口中经历种族变化的。了解种族和国籍是如何在类似但不那么种族混杂的情况下经历的，将有助于我们理解我们自己的价值观和行为的来源。

This dissertation research project supports an anthropology student from Stanford University studying how people in British society interpret racial differences, in light of the upcoming national census in that country where racial identity will be recorded for the first time. Using an ethnographic methodology, the student (who is Black) and a research assistant (who will be White) will study how people living in Liverpool use concepts of national identity like "Englishness" as implicitly racial terms, as well as explicitly racial terms like "Asian" and "Black". In depth interviews will be conducted with community activists and census officials on the political controversy over racial categories in the census as well as with a sample of individual life histories focusing on their perceptions of race in British history. The investigators will also observe the teaching of British history in a senior (high) school. This project is significant because it attempts to understand how a democratic society similar to ours experiences racial change in their population. Understanding how race and nationality are experienced in a similar but less racially mixed situation will help us understand the sources of our own values and behavior.