Les Back
Goldsmiths, University of London
81 Papers
749 Citations
Les Back is an academic researcher from Goldsmiths, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Racism & Politics. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 78 publications. Previous affiliations of Les Back include University of London.
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Papers
The auditory culture reader
Michael Bull,Les Back +1 more
- 01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The Auditory Culture Reader as discussed by the authors explores how auditory culture subtly and profoundly impacts on our everyday lives, from the evocative tolling of village bells to the grating rattle of exhaust pipes, what we hear influences how we feel and what we do.
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Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture
Vron Ware,Les Back +1 more
- 01 Dec 2001
TL;DR: The authors argue for a genealogical approach to anti-racism as a global social movement, and for the significance of slavery and colonial history in the dismantling of English nationalism, particularly with regard to landscape and place.
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The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game
Les Back,Tim Crabbe,John Solomos +2 more
- 01 Nov 2001
TL;DR: The authors provide a systematic and empirically grounded account of the role of race, nation and identity within contemporary football cultures, focusing on four clubs on which the authors did their research, showing how different clubs understand and experience race in different ways.
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Aryans reading Adorno: cyber-culture and twenty-firstcentury racism
TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which digital technology is being used in contemporary forms of racist culture within white nationalist movements and argues that new types of racist cultures are made possible in cyberspace.
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