Assuming he actually wrote it, Jason Arday’s 2020 book “Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain,” further demonstrates his stupefying mediocrity and the state of academic sociology.

🧵 1/ 2/ Arday argues that though the 1990s-era United Kingdom is remembered as a time and place of diverse cultural production and racial progress, black Britons view “Cool Britannia” as a period of deep-seated racism.

The UK’s chart-defining influence on pop music and pop culture obfuscated the racist realities faced by Britons of color, or so the story goes.