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This chapter makes the case for including the distinct spaces of the seaside in contemporary spatial studies of race, racialisation, and racism outside the metropolis. Analysing the extant sociology and cultural geography literature on race and ethnicity in rural and suburban locations, and in other “new” spaces of multiculture, Burdsey highlights its failure to consider the importance of those geographical settings that lie on the coast. By way of reply, he shows how this body of scholarship would be strengthened conceptually and empirically by a greater engagement with seaside landscapes and populations. The chapter explores the implications arising from the predominant whiteness of English seaside communities and spaces, together with the shifts created by internal minority ethnic migration within the UK and global population flows.
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Burdsey, D. (2016). Between the City and the Sea: Race, Ethnicity, and Space at the Periphery. In: Race, Place and the Seaside. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45012-8_3
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