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Les Back (born 17 December 1962) is a professor of sociology at the University of Glasgow[1] and former Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a researcher and author of books and academic studies on topics including racism, music and urban cultures.[2]
Biographyedit
Les Back was born in Croydon, South London. Back's first job was as a youth worker.[3] He studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Goldsmiths, University of London, receiving his PhD in social anthropology in 1991. He subsequently worked at the Institute of Education, Birkbeck College and the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham before returning to Goldsmiths in 1993.
Key studiesedit
Back is the author of the following books:
The Art of Listening (2007)
Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture (2003 with Vron Ware)
The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game (2001) with T Crabbe and J. Solomos
New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives(1996)
Racism and Society (1996 with John Solomos)
Race, Politics and Social Change (1995 with John Solomos).
In addition he has edited three volumes: The Auditory Cultures Reader (2003 with Michael Bull), Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (2000 with John Solomos) and (1993) (co-editor with Anoop Nayak) Invisible Europeans?: Black people in the 'New Europe' (1993 with Anoop Nayak).
Written in Stone (2008) Sociology Working papers, Goldsmiths, University of London https://web.archive.org/web/20081024024020/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sociology/1-4-11.html