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Youth, multiculturalism and community cohesion / Paul Thomas.

Title
Youth, multiculturalism and community cohesion / Paul Thomas.
Author
Thomas, Paul, 1962 January 24-
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description
vii, 219 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to "prevent violent extremism" amongst young Muslims"--
Series Statement
Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series
Uniform Title
Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series.
Subject
  • Multiculturalism > Great Britain
  • Racism > Great Britain
  • Youth > Great Britain
  • Violence > Great Britain > Prevention
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  • FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adolescence
  • FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Teenagers
  • Multiculturalism
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • Violence > Prevention
  • Youth
  • Great Britain > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Community Cohesion -- A New British Policy Agenda -- The Emergence of Community Cohesion -- Going with the Flow? International Comparisons -- Community Cohesion -- The Death of the British Model of Multiculturalism? -- Myths and Realities -- Community Cohesion in Practice -- Community Cohesion -- More than Ethnicity? -- Unwilling Citizens? Muslim Young People and Identity -- White Young People and Community Cohesion -- The Refusniks? -- A Contradiction to Community Cohesion? The Preventing Violent Extremism Agenda -- Conclusion -- Community Cohesion as a New Phase of British Multiculturalism -- Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9780230251953 (hardback)
  • 0230251951 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2011004349
OCLC
690086413
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library