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2016
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power in 2016 and will be available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/current.
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This article is based on ethnographic research carried out in Bradford, an ethnically diverse city situated in the north of England. The sample of over 60 participants mostly comprises males of British Pakistani Muslim heritage but varies in terms other markers of identity such as social class, profession and residential/working locale. The article analyses the cultural value and meaning of cars within a multicultural context and how a consumer object can feed into the processes which refine and embed racialized identities. Small cases studies reveal the concrete and discursive ways through which ideas around identity and ethnicity are transmitted and how, in particular, racialization continues to feature as a live, active and recognisable process in everyday experience.
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Alam MY (2016) Automatic transmission: ethnicity, racialization and the car. Identities:
Global Studies in Culture and Power. 25(3): 284-301.
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