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Diaspora and Hybridity

Virinder Kalra

Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur, John Hutnyk ... racial politics, with the first cross- race screen kiss in the original 1960s series, no one less than Martin Luther King thought it worthwhile to congratulate director Gene Rodenberry and visit the set.4 ...

Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach

Virinder S. Kalra

A Postcolonial Approach Virinder S. Kalra. music in itself has to embody beauty and the refineries of life. This then entirely depends on thelistening public. For example, as the trains were takingJews tobe gassed inthe camps, the Berlin ...

Migration - Networks - Skills: Anthropological Perspectives ...

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In: Ali, Nasreen, Virinder S. Kalra and S. Sayyid (eds.): A postcolonial people: South Asians in Britain. London: Hurst: pp. 74-90. Kalra, Virinder S. (2000) From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of Migration, Labour and Social Change.

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public ...

Gayatri Gopinath

Virinder Kalra also cites the female Bhangra vocalist Mohinder K. Bhamra as one of the ''founders of modern Bhangra.'' See Kalra's analysis of Bhangra lyrics from the 1970s to the 1990s in his article ''Vilayeti Rhythms: Beyond Bhangra's ...

The State of Race

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Virinder S. Kalra and Tariq Mehmood Followingthe7/7 bombings inLondon, a distinctdesire to target Muslims for scrutiny and surveillance pervaded the British security establishment in its national arms (MI5) as well as its local elements ...

A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain

Nasreen Ali

RACIALISATION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Virinder S. Kalra 'The police are not an intrusion into that society, but a threat, a foreign force, an army of occupation — the thick end of the authoritarian wedge.... It was once held that ...

Diaspora and Hybridity

Virinder Kalra

Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity.

Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition ...

Raminder Kaur

Raminder Kaur is senior Lecturer in the department of anthropology at the University of sussex. she is author of Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism and (with virinder Kalra and John Hutnyk) Diaspora and Hybridity, and co-editor ...

From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of Migration, ...

Virinder S. Kalra

The phrase from textile mills to taxi ranks is not only a metonym for the movement to a service sector economy, but also presents a shift in place of work for many (Azad) Kahmiri/Pakistani men.

Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach

Virinder S. Kalra

This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia.

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

Jasbir K. Puar

Virinder S. Kalra, "Locating the Sikh Pagh" In the inaugural issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, the first journal devoted to fostering a critical Sikh cultural studies that diverges from anthropological, sociological, theological, and ...

Cultures Of Popular Music

Bennett, Andy

... Simon, 79, 84, 99, 165 Joplin, Janis, 171 Jordan, John, 130, 163 Judas Priest, 44, 49—50, 53, 54—5, 163 jungle, 115, 120 Kaur, Raminder and Virinder S. Kalra, 111—12, 114, 163 Kesey, Ken, 30, 167, 168 King, Martin Luther, 133 Kiss, 44, ...