%0 Journal Article
%T Encoding and Decoding Black and White Cultural Capitals: Black Middle
%A Ali Meghji
%J Cultural Sociology
%@ 1749-9763
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1749975517741999
%X Drawing upon 23 qualitative interviews, and ethnographic work in London, this article explores how black middle-class individuals in the UK decode forms of middle-class cultural capital. This decoding is two staged. Firstly, black middle-class individuals often decode dominant or ¡®traditional¡¯ middle-class cultural capital as white. This involves a recognition that certain forms of middle-class cultural capital are marked as racially exclusive, and are reproduced and recognised in ¡®white spaces¡¯. Secondly, black middle-class individuals also decode alternative forms of cultural capital as woven into a greater project of racial uplift. Such alternative forms of cultural capital are defined as ¡®black cultural capital¡¯, and tend to be based around fulfilling a cultural politics of black representation
%K black cultural capital
%K black middle class
%K cultural capital
%K cultural studies
%K race and class
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749975517741999