Back (1996) - Changing Ethnic Identity

• Back (1996) wrote an ethnographic study called 'Neighbourhood Nationalism' & Cultural Hybridity
• Back (1996) studied 2 council estates in London
• Back wrote his ethnographic study 'Neighbourhood Nationalism' & Cultural Hybridity in 1996
• Back (1996) found cultural hybridity in the 2 council estate in London, but it was not just young black people who developed hybrid identities
• Back (1996) found that young white people were attracted to aspects of black culture (example of Cultural Hybridity), and local young people from all ethnic backgrounds developed a shared identity based on mixed ethnicity & 'neighbourhood nationalism' - a feeling of solidarity and common identity with people from the same area
• Back (1996) found young white people were attracted to aspects of black culture, and local young people from all ethnic backgrounds developed a sort of shared identity based on mixed ethnicity & 'neighbourhood nationalism' - a feeling of solidarity and common identity with people from the same area
• Back (1996) believed in 'Neighbourhood Nationalism' which was a feeling of solidarity and common identity with people from the same area