Sivamohan Valluvan — Conviviality and Multiculture: A Postintegration Sociology of Multi-ethnic Interaction

11 published claims from this book.

• Black British celebrants can appropriate royal pageantry into a sardonic spectacle of multicultural defiance.
• Boundary-crossing arises from habits, not from belonging ties.
• Contact alone does not enable fluent multi-ethnic interaction.
• Everyday convivial interaction makes ethno-national identity politically obsolete as a category of belonging.
• Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices.
• Everyday racial insignificance arises from practiced indifference, not denial of difference.
• Gilroy’s conviviality means ease with diversity without reasserting fixed ethnic identities.
• Integration should reduce bodily visibility as a measure of social worth, not change identities.
• Migration status only becomes a problem when others choose to treat it as one
• Multiculture can operate where ethnic difference escapes normative supervision.
• Urban space mediates how diversity and racialization play out differently