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Cookie akzeptieren- Königshausen & Neumann
- 2024
- Taschenbuch
- 284 Seiten
- ISBN 9783826079351
When one is poor and black, it is hard »to come into representation« (Hall, New Ethnicities 164). Those on the margins of society are usually talked and written about rather than given a voice of their own. Young black men in particular are stereotyped as criminal and violent, as dangerous threats to society. In this context the term >underclass< comes up time and again in public discourse. It is a very controversial label which masquerades as a scientific descriptor but actually fulfils the ideological function of stigmatising the poor and justifying their criminalisation and marginalisation. Black British novels dealing with the >underclass<, such as Alex Wheatle's East of Acre Lane (2001) and The Dirty South (2008) as well as Courttia Newland's
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