London's East End

  • Brick LaneSalaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East EndPlacing London: From Imperial Capital to Global CitySandhu
  • London Bibliography - A list of literary publications and websites that relate to South Asians in London

    Politics and Identity
    1. J. Eade (1989) The Politics of Community, Aldershot: Ashgate.
    2.----  (1991) ‘Bangladeshi community organisation and leadership in Tower Hamlets, East London’
    in C. Clarke, C. Peach and S. Vertovec (eds), South Asians Overseas, Cambridge: CUP
    3. Dwyer, C. (1993) ‘Constructions of Muslim identity and the contesting of power: the debate over
    Muslim schools in the United Kingdom’ in P. Jackson and J. Penrose (eds), Construction of Race,
    Place and Nation, London: UCL Press.
    4. Centre for Bangladeshi Studies (1994) Routes and Beyond: Voices from educationally successful
    Bangladeshis, Roehampton University, London: CBS.
    5. C. Neveu (1993) Communauté, nationalité et citoyenneté. De l’autre côté du miroir, les Bangladeshis de
    Londres, Paris: Karthala.
    6. Gardner, K and Shukur, A. (1994) ‘”I’m Bengali, I’m Asian and I’m living here !” The changing
    identity of British Bengalis’ in R. Ballard  (ed.),  Desh-Pardesh, the South Asian presence in Britain,
    London: Hurst Ltd.
    7. Eade, J. (1996) ‘Nationalism, Community and the Islamization of Space in London’ in B. Metcalf (ed.),
    Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, Berkeley: University of California Press. 

  • History
    1. C. Booth (1902) Life and Labour of the People in London
    2. Gartner, L. (1960) The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914, London: Allen and Unwin.
    3. Worpole, K. (1983) ‘Out of the Ghetto: The literature of London’s Jewish East End’ in K. Worpole,
    Dockers and Detectives, London: Verso Books.
    4. Visram, R. (1986) Ayahs, Lascars and Princes, Pluto Press.
    5. Fishman, W. (1988) East End 1888, London: Duckworth.
    6. Kershen, A. (1997) ‘Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields and the spirit of capitalism’ in
    7. A. Kershen (ed.), London: The Promised Land?, Aldershot: Ashgate.
    8. J. Eade (2000) Placing London, London and New York: Berghahn Books.

  • Sexuality
    1. Brown, G. (1988) ‘The queer spaces of Tower Hamlets: gay men and the regeneration on an East London
    borough’, Rising East 2.
    2. Desai, P. (1999) Spaces of Identity, Cultures of Conflict: The development of new British Asian masculinities,
    Unpublished PhD Thesis, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
    3. Brown, G. (2007) ‘Cosmopolitanism by default: (post)gay space in Spitalfields’ in J. Binnie et al. (eds),
    Cosmopolitan Urbanism, London and New York: Routledge

  • Racism
    1. Bethnal Green and Stepney Trades Council (1978) Blood on the Streets
    2. Leech, K. (1980) Brick Lane 1978, Birmingham: AFFOR.
    3. CRE (1979) Brick Lane and Beyond: An Enquiry into Racial Strife and Violence in Tower Hamlets
    4. Husbands, C. (1982) ‘East End racism 1900-80’, The London Journal 8 (1).
    5. Cohen, P. (1996) ‘All white on the night? Narratives of nativism on the Isle of Dogs’ in T. Butler and M. Rustin
    (eds), Rising in the East, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
    6. Rowe, K. (1995) Conflict Resolution at the Community Level: Initiatives and strategies in the London Borough
    of Tower Hamlets, University of Bradford BA dissertation.
    7. Keith, M. (1995) ‘Making the street visible, placing racial violence in context’, New Community, 21 (4).
    Tower Hamlets (1987) Tower Hamlets Health Inquiry Report, London: Tower Hamlets Community Health Council.
    8. Murphy, O. (2000) Figures of an Audit of Organisations Working on Racial Harassment in Tower Hamlets,
    Tower Hamlets Racial Harassment Consortium.

  • Education
    1. Tower Hamlets Education and Community Services (1996) The Ethnic Background of Pupils in Tower Hamlets,
    LBTH.
    2. Sofer, A., L. Klein and J. Porter (1996) ‘Columbia Primary School Tower Hamlets, London’ in National
    Commission on Education (ed.), Success Against the Odds, Routledge.
    3. Gillborn, D. A. Green and D. Youdell (1996) Underachievement among WhiteSecondary School Students in TowerHamlets, London: Institute of Education

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