Where You Belong : Government and Black Culture Book

	Contributors
	Preface: Black cultures in Britain today do not derive from racial or cultural origins, but rather from political and cultural counter-assertions against European definitions of humanity.
	Acknowledgements
1	Where you belong: A nation is a political arrangement rather than a group whose identity depends on its members' descent from an historic people: refugee, colonial subject, exile and native all create a sense of belonging from a mixture of fragmented identities.	1
2	National exclusions: Who is truly British? - how Britain developed the current immigration-control legislation, to what extent this legislation is racist, and what steps can be taken to combat and reform it.	14
3	Quests for belonging: Social identities are not bounded by imagined communities: they are flexible and ambivalent: a study of a constituency of British citizens who live within the national boundary but who have another belonging - the British Bengalis.	33
4	Cultural recognition and identity: The Ras Tafarian movement is a cultural movement in opposition to colonial culture (and European definitions of humanity), helping black people to find the self identification they need in order to develop a sense of belonging.	50
5	Sisyphus' stone: A critique of ideas that portray the art of music, and particularly substantive black music, as a language and a continuing culture of resistance.	73
6	Policing the streets: British police culture categorizes the public in a racist way: black people as a group are viewed as potential criminals, and this both informs policy procedures and fosters resentment towards the police on the part of black people themselves.	94
7	Black body politics: Inapplying the concept of body memory of suffering to the 1981 Brixton disorder, a better sense of black crowd resistance to police brutality is gained. This implies that the 'black community' is not a revolutionary subject continuously in conflict with the state; but relations between black citizens and the police must be radically redefined, or there can be no peace. Reforms of the governance of policing and courts can do this.	108
8	Conclusion: Three major warning signals alert us to elements of the current debate of the place of black citizens in British society which threatens the project of pluralist democracy for which we argue in this book, and in its companion volume Antiracist Strategies.	127
	Appendix	133
	Index	137