'Black like Beckham'? Moving beyond definitions of ethnicity based on skin colour and ancestry

Ethnicity & Health
Saffron Karlsen

Abstract

The definitions of ethnic status currently employed in, particularly, epidemiological research, tend to focus on skin colour or on perceived historical or ancestral links with certain geographical locations. Neither of these classificatory systems stem from any widely supported theoretical standpoint and their usefulness in terms of explaining any ethnic variation is therefore questionable. In order to enable more informative exploration of ethnicity and its relationship with health and other indicators, a clearer understanding of the processes involved in ethnic identification is required. This paper sets out to explore underlying dimensions which could constitute an ethnic identity across different ethnic groups in England. Principal components factor analyses on the different ethnic groups included in the Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the community study: Bangladeshi, Caribbean, Indian, Irish and Pakistani people and a 'white majority' group. In each ethnically specific model, three dimensions of ethnic identity were determined; related to multiculturalism, or the sustenance of ethnic difference, racialisation and community participation. In the ethnic minority group models the 'multiculturalism' dimension for...Continue Reading

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