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Highlights
- How do academic spaces perpetuate racial and religious inequalities, and what can be done to challenge them?
- About the Author: Yunis Alam is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford.
- 240 Pages
- Social Science,
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Book Synopsis
How do academic spaces perpetuate racial and religious inequalities, and what can be done to challenge them?
This provocative book examines the intersections of ethnicity, faith and class with a focus on British South Asian Muslim identity. Drawing on ethnographic insights and theoretical frameworks such as postcoloniality, orientalism and hybridity, the author unpacks representations of race, religion and Islamophobia in both academic and public discourse. By connecting historical legacies of imperialism with contemporary inequalities, the book offers both critical analysis and practical suggestions for action.
Written in an accessible yet provocative style, this book is set to spark vital conversations and inspire meaningful interventions in higher education and beyond.
Review Quotes
"This book offers a provocative and insightful exploration of race, identity, and power, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the complexities of these issues in contemporary society." Chantelle Lewis, University of Oxford and Surviving Society Productions
"Brave, nuanced and unrelenting, Alam is at his best here. Combining his earlier achievements in writing fiction that animated a unique ethnic minority position, here Alam brings together a serious concern with the enduring power of racialised thinking and work that structure the space of EDI in the Academy." Ajmal Hussain, University of Warwick
About the Author
Yunis Alam is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford.