Race, Taste, Class and Cars

Yunis Alam is a sociologist, working at the University of Bradford. His research interests span ethnic relations, popular culture, ethnography and postcolonial literatures. He has also published a number of novels and short stories.

• one Introduction;two Researching Bradford: putting the ‘auto’ into ethnography;three Communicating cars: television, popular music and everyday life;four Consuming cars: class, ethnicity and taste;five Car work: production, consumption and modification;six Social psychology, cars and multi-ethnic spaces;seven Fun-loving criminal: speed, danger and race;eight Conclusion.