A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation.
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English 'working-class' sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub's plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a 'white working-cla...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 156 - 177 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2025
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