Young British Asians lacked an indigenous youth culture in the 1960s

Evidence

Hanif Kureishi’s writing exists at the intersection where the forces of youthful rebellion meet their rearticulation (and possibly neutering) in the shiny packaging of the mainstream entertainment industry. Writing of the key difference between the black and Asian British experiences of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Sukhdev Sandhu notes how young Asians “lacked an indigenous youth culture. They forged no musical alliances such as those between rude boy ska and skinhead stomp at the end of the 1960s, or 1976’s reggae–punk axis.” He credits Hanif Kureishi with imaginatively connecting British Asian experience with the main currents of popular culture going on at the time. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Asian British youth lacked an indigenous popular culture that black British youth had — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166; Non-Western regions in the late 20th century uniformly turned back toward indigenous identities — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 256
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Asian British youth lacked an indigenous popular culture that black British youth had — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166; Non-Western regions in the late 20th century uniformly turned back toward indigenous identities — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 256

Broader Connections

• Asian British youth lacked an indigenous popular culture that black British youth had #corroborates (0.96) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 166
• Non-Western regions in the late 20th century uniformly turned back toward indigenous identities #complicates (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 256