Les Back
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Les Back's Degrees
- PhD Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London
- Masters Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London
- Bachelors Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Les Back is a professor of sociology at the University of Glasgow and former Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a researcher and author of numerous books and academic studies on a wide range of topics, including racism, music and urban cultures.
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Published Works
- New ethnicities and urban culture : racisms and multiculture in young lives (1996) (461)
- Theories of Race and Racism : A Reader (2001) (246)
- Racism and Society (1996) (211)
- The Art of Listening (2007) (194)
- The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game (2001) (161)
- New Labour’s White Heart: Politics, Multiculturalism and the Return of Assimilation (2002) (145)
- Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture (2001) (145)
- Race, politics, and social change (1995) (134)
- Aryans reading Adorno: cyber-culture and twenty-firstcentury racism (2002) (133)
- New hierarchies of belonging (2012) (131)
- Why Everyday Life Matters: Class, Community and Making Life Livable (2015) (107)
- A Manifesto for Live Methods: Provocations and Capacities (2012) (103)
- Live Sociology: Social Research and its Futures (2012) (102)
- Conceptualising Racisms: Social Theory, Politics and Research (1994) (98)
- ‘The Return of Assimilationism: Race, Multiculturalism and New Labour’ (2002) (95)
- AT HOME AND NOT AT HOME: STUART HALL IN CONVERSATION WITH LES BACK (2009) (76)
- Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racism’s Ruins (2016) (64)
- Researching community and its moral projects (2009) (64)
- Making methods sociable: dialogue, ethics and authorship in qualitative research (2014) (62)
- Beyond the racist/hooligan couplet: race, social theory and football culture. (1999) (59)
- Race, identity and nation within an adolescent community in South London (1993) (53)
- Howard Winant THE THEORETICAL STATUS OF THE CONCEPT OF RACE (2013) (40)
- Doing research, writing politics: the dilemmas of political intervention in research on racism (1993) (39)
- Dream Utopias, nightmare realities: Imaging race and culture within the world of Benetton advertising (1993) (38)
- Marxism, Racism, and Ethnicity (1995) (35)
- Portrayal and Betrayal: Bourdieu, Photography and Sociological Life (2009) (33)
- Racism in football: patterns of continuity and change. (1998) (32)
- Finding the way home : Young people's stories of gender, ethnicity, class and places in Hamburg and London (2008) (31)
- Islam and the New Political Landscape (2009) (28)
- Voices from the sidewalk: Ethnography and writing race (2006) (28)
- Race, Social Cohesion and the Changing Politics of Citizenship (2004) (28)
- ‘Home From Home’: Youth, Belonging and Place (2005) (27)
- C. Wright Mills 50 Years On: The Promise and Craft of Sociology Revisited (2012) (27)
- RACE, SPORT AND POLITICS: THE SPORTING BLACK DIASPORA (2012) (24)
- The ‘White Negro’ revisited: Race and masculinities in south London (1994) (23)
- Fishmongers in a Global Economy: Craft and Social Relations on a London Market (2012) (23)
- Black politics and social change in Birmingham, UK: An analysis of recent trends (1992) (19)
- Social Context and Racist Name Calling: an ethnographic perspective on racist talk within a South London adolescent community (1991) (19)
- Voices of Hate, Sounds of Hybridity: Black Music and the Complexities of Racism (2000) (19)
- Broken devices and new opportunities: re-imagining the tools of qualitative research (2010) (19)
- New Ethnicities And Urban Cult (2013) (17)
- Black politics and the web of joined‐up governance: compromise, ethnic minority mobilization and the transitional public sphere (2004) (17)
- Whiteness in the Dramaturgy of Racism (2010) (16)
- 'Lions and black skins': race, nation and local patriotism in football. (2001) (15)
- New Ethnicities And Urban Culture: Social Identity And Racism In The Lives Of Young People (2015) (15)
- Racism and Anti-Racism (1996) (15)
- Dancing and Wrestling with Scholarship: Things to do and things to avoid in a PhD Career (2002) (14)
- Falling from the sky (2003) (14)
- Technology, Race and Neo‐fascism in a Digital Age: The New Modalities of Racist Culture 1 (1996) (12)
- For a Sociological Reconstruction: W.E.B. Du Bois, Stuart Hall and Segregated Sociology (2015) (10)
- Politics, Research and Understanding (2004) (10)
- Inscriptions of Love (2008) (10)
- Impurity and the Emancipatory City: Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger (2004) (10)
- At Home and Not at Home: (2018) (9)
- Marchers and Steppers : Memory, City Life and Walking (2017) (9)
- Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug (1997) (8)
- Doing Real Time Research: Opportunities and Challenges (2013) (8)
- Trust Your Senses? War, Memory, and the Racist Nervous System (2011) (8)
- Global Attentiveness and the Sociological Ear (2009) (8)
- Introduction : Aims, methods, and sample (2008) (6)
- The Auditory Cultures Reader (2003) (6)
- Migration and the Politics of Race (1993) (6)
- Intellectual Life and the University of Commerce. (2011) (6)
- ‘Sociologists Talking’ (2008) (5)
- The Fact of Hybridity: Youth, Ethnicity, and Racism (2018) (5)
- How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary Humanism and the Blues behind Bars (2015) (5)
- Class, Inequality and Community Development (2016) (4)
- activism, imagination and writing: Avtar Brah reflects on her life and work with Les Back (2012) (4)
- Beaches and graveyards: Europe's haunted borders1 (2009) (4)
- Black Political Mobilisation and the Struggle for Equality (1991) (4)
- Rethinking the Politics of Race: Participation, Representation and Identity in Birmingham (2000) (3)
- An ordinary virtue (2008) (3)
- Writing as a Movement of Imagination, Reading as Companionship in Thought (2014) (3)
- Introduction: Theories of race and racism: genesis, development and contemporary trends (2020) (3)
- Migration and the Terms of Inclusion (2012) (3)
- Introduction Into Sound ... Once More with Feeling (2020) (3)
- Labour and Racism: Trade Unions and the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates (1994) (2)
- Moving Sounds, Controlled Borders (2016) (2)
- British Literature in British Universities – A Twenty-first Century Reality? (2008) (2)
- Urban multiculture and xenophonophobia in London and Berlin (2021) (2)
- ‘When you score you’re English, when you miss you’re Black’: Euro 2020 and the racial politics of a penalty shoot-out (2021) (2)
- Taking and Giving Hope: a Response to Ros Gill’s “What Would Les Back Do? If Generosity Could Save Us… a Review of Les Back’s Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters (2016: Goldsmiths Press, 272 pp)” (2018) (1)
- Journeying through words: Les Back reflects on writing with Thomas Yarrow (2014) (1)
- Following Stuart Hall (2014) (1)
- Races, Racism and Popular Culture (1996) (1)
- The New Technologies of Racism (2018) (1)
- Les Back: A Shared Sociology (2016) (1)
- The Unfinished Politics of Race (2022) (1)
- Every Minute Of Every Day [Blog/Website] (2017) (0)
- Afterword:: Giving multiculture a name (2019) (0)
- Stealing a dream: young migrants living through anti-immigrant times (2018) (0)
- Researching Multicultural Community (2008) (0)
- Tzvetan Todorov RACE AND RACISM (2013) (0)
- Taking and Giving Hope: a Response to Ros Gill’s “What Would Les Back Do? If Generosity Could Save Us… a Review of Les Back’s Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters (2016: Goldsmiths Press, 272 pp)” (2017) (0)
- Avtar Brah DIFFERENCE, DIVERSITY, DIFFERENTIATION (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- "Let the ears of the guilty people tingle with truth": W. E. B. Du Bois as an original sociologist. (2017) (0)
- A View From Nearby: The Anthropology Gold Lecturer, 2016. (2016) (0)
- 2 May: Supervision (2019) (0)
- Young Men, Violence and Racism (2011) (0)
- Racism, Class and Political Action (1996) (0)
- God save the Queen: The Pistols’ Jubilee (2002) (0)
- Michael Banton THE IDIOM OF RACE (2013) (0)
- “Neighbourhood nationalism” : Youth, race, nation and identity (2013) (0)
- Reggae Culture as Local Knowledge: Mapping the Beats on South East London Streets (2020) (0)
- Tracks of My Tears: Smokey Robinson and the Art of Loving (2014) (0)
- Shifting Meanings of Race and Racism (1996) (0)
- 17 December: Bourdieu Behind Bars (2019) (0)
- David Theo Goldberg RACIAL KNOWLEDGE (2013) (0)
- Race and the cultural industries (2019) (0)
- Paton, Kirsteen Gentrification: A Working‐Class Perspective 2014 Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate 2014 223 pp. £65 (hardback). (2016) (0)
- Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer ELEMENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM (2013) (0)
- Tape Recorder (2020) (0)
- 25 October: Teaching (2019) (0)
- 30 June: The Library Angel (2019) (0)
- Diversity Conservatism and Sociable Sociology (2021) (0)
- Of method and freedom: How to re-shape the restrictive dynamic between researcher and participant. (2013) (0)
- Social Relations and Racial Inequality (1996) (0)
- The Fellowship Inn Project Evaluation (2019) (0)
- Heroes and Heroines (2019) (0)
- Let a Thousand Stones Roll: Living and Thinking with Music (2016) (0)
- Uncommon Sense: Listening, with Les Back [Audio podcast episode] (2023) (0)
- 10 December: Class Mobility (2019) (0)
- 20 November: Research Expenses (2019) (0)
- Lola Young IMPERIAL CULTURE (2013) (0)
- Identity, Hybridity and New Ethnicities (1996) (0)
- Political discourses and race (2002) (0)
- 16 April: Conference Etiquette (2019) (0)
- Singing Sociologists (2020) (0)
- The auditory culture reader, 2nd Edition (2015) (0)
- Oliver C. Cox RACE RELATIONS (2013) (0)
- The metropolitan paradox (2017) (0)
- Prospects and RetrospectsA flame immune to the wind (2003) (0)
- Paul Gilroy THE DIALECTICS OF DIASPORA IDENTIFICATION (2013) (0)
- 16 May: The Doublethink of Open Access (2019) (0)
- 19 August: Primo Levi’s House (2019) (0)
- Technicolour Eruptions of Light in the Darkness: An Interview with Professor Les Back (2021) (0)
- Heard the one about the Jewish rock star? (2002) (0)
- 12 February: Generosity as a Strategy for Survival (2019) (0)
- Michael Keith IDENTITY AND THE SPACES OF AUTHENTICITY (2013) (0)
- 26 February: Professionals and Amateurs (2019) (0)
- Why music matters for sociology: conversation with Prof. Les Back (2018) (0)
- Spring Term/ 10 January: The Diary Disease (2019) (0)
- "Our area": community, resistance and multiculture (2017) (0)
- Written in Stone: Black writing and Goldsmiths College (2007) (0)
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