Les Back Goldsmiths College, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Les Back is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His main areas of interest are the sociology of racism, popular culture, and, especially, music and digital culture and city life. Much of Les Back’s work is ethnographically informed, and he has conducted a wide range of empirical work largely based in Britain, although also including fieldwork in northern Alabama in the southern United States. Recently he and Shamser Sinha have spent a decade following 30 migrants in London, a study that forms the narrative in their new book, Migrant City.
