Marie Gillespie is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the Diaspora Literary and Media Cultures project co-ordinator for the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme at the University of Oxford.

• Introduction Cultural change: British, Asian and black identities, Remaking ethnicity, About this book 1 Southall: Chota Punjab, west London 2 Living fieldwork – writing ethnography 3 Local uses of the media: Negotiating culture and identity 4 Coming of age in Southall: TV news talk 5 Neighbours and gossip: Kinship, courtship and community 6 Cool bodies: TV ad talk

Marie Gillespie is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the Diaspora Literary and Media Cultures project co-ordinator for the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme at the University of Oxford.

• Introduction Cultural change: British, Asian and black identities, Remaking ethnicity, About this book 1 Southall: Chota Punjab, west London 2 Living fieldwork – writing ethnography 3 Local uses of the media: Negotiating culture and identity 4 Coming of age in Southall: TV news talk 5 Neighbours and gossip: Kinship, courtship and community 6 Cool bodies: TV ad talk

Marie Gillespie is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the Diaspora Literary and Media Cultures project co-ordinator for the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme at the University of Oxford.

• Introduction Cultural change: British, Asian and black identities, Remaking ethnicity, About this book 1 Southall: Chota Punjab, west London 2 Living fieldwork – writing ethnography 3 Local uses of the media: Negotiating culture and identity 4 Coming of age in Southall: TV news talk 5 Neighbours and gossip: Kinship, courtship and community 6 Cool bodies: TV ad talk