Dissertation Research: Identity Politics in Post-Colonial Britain

本论文研究项目支持人类学 来自斯坦福大学的学生，研究英国人 社会解释种族差异，根据即将到来的 在这个国家进行全国人口普查， 第一次记录。 使用人种学方法， 学生（黑人）和一名研究助理（ 白色）将研究生活在利物浦的人们如何使用 像“英国性”这样的民族认同是含蓄的种族术语， 以及“亚洲人”和“黑人”等明显带有种族色彩的词汇。 在 将与社区活动家进行深入访谈， 人口普查官员对种族问题的政治争议 人口普查中的类别以及个人样本 生活史，重点是他们对英国种族的看法 历史 调查人员还将观察 高中英国历史。 这个项目意义重大，因为它试图了解如何 一个类似于我们的民主社会经历了种族变革， 他们的人口。 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， 帮助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.