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Thinking Allowed: Non-Networking Graduates; Race and Consumption

30/07/2014

Non-Networking Graduates; Race and Consumption

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Non-Networking Graduates; Race and Consumption

Race and consumption. Also, working class graduates who refuse to network.

Race and consumption - Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which racial meaning is produced in everyday contemporary culture. Also, working class graduates who refuse to network.

Race & consumption - Laurie Taylor talks to Ben Pitcher, Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, about the ways in which racial meaning is produced in everyday acts of consumption. From the depiction of 'red Indians' by children's authors to the wearing of Bob Marley T shirts and the enthusiasm for 'ethnic' street food; our ideas of race are made and re-made across the terrain of contemporary culture. They're joined by Lola Young, Crossbench Peer and former Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Middlesex. Also, Jessica Abrahams, graduate student at the University of Cardiff, explores working class students' refusal to use networks and contacts as a route to career advancement.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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