Social mixing in urban schools: Class, race and exchange-value friendships
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The Self
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Based on empirical, qualitative research on ‘social mixing’ in multi-ethnic London schools, this article argues for a conceptualisation of social mixing as an exchange of the self. Through analysis of three working-class, minority ethnic students who attempt to ‘cross borders’ into White middle-class subcultures, I explore the differing capital value embodied in their raced, classed and gendered identity positions. Friendships across this border are characterised by ‘semi-investments’ on both sides, and promise only partial possibilities for social mobility via social mixing, through limited access to academic capital and embodied Whiteness.
2021 ◽
Vol 23
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pp. 108-123
2019 ◽
Vol 49
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pp. 2168-2186
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2017 ◽
Vol 21
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pp. 975-990
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1997 ◽
Vol 23
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pp. 131-144
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