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“It’s Just the Culture of the Town. They’re Not Used to Different People Coming”: Racialised Inclusions and Exclusions in a Seaside Town

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Burdsey uses empirical data to examine how minority ethnic residents recognise, and reflect on the implications of, multicultural changes in a particular seaside town over the past decade. These perceptions are contextualised within contemporary sociological and cultural geographical scholarship on integration, multiculture, and community cohesion. Foregrounding narratives and experiences of racism, this chapter contests the dominant assertion that racial discrimination is not a problem in majority white spaces. It demonstrates how the “visibility” of (certain) minority ethnic people in predominantly white environments, in the context of particular socio-political conditions, can increase levels of discrimination. The chapter offers a detailed illumination of how forms of prejudice and discrimination exist alongside convivial inter-cultural relations in other spaces, and at other times, at the English seaside.

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Burdsey, D. (2016). “It’s Just the Culture of the Town. They’re Not Used to Different People Coming”: Racialised Inclusions and Exclusions in a Seaside Town. In: Race, Place and the Seaside. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8_7

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