Race, Discourse and Labourism

ISBN-13: 9780415050128 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 220 str.

Caroline Knowles;Caroline Knowles

Opis

Race, Discourse and Labourism documents the Labour party's construction of the concept of race in political discourse from the 1930s Indian independence negotiations and the defence of Jews from anti-semitic attack in East London. Caroline Knowles argues that in these historical processes Labour constructed a range of negative significances for black citizenship and multi-culturalism and, despite recasting its approach to race in the 1960s and early 1970s, Labour is still unable to officially sanction the effective representation of black voices in its own ranks. The author aims to show that Labour has not only tolerated racial inequality, it has given it important political direction. Race, Discourse and Labourism is about political processes. It is about the theoretical and political analysis of how race was constructed and sustained as a category in British politics.

Race, Discourse and Labourism argues that the commonwealth of socialism is founded upon a well-concealed history of brutality and repression. Caroline Knowles details the historical conditions of the emergence of race through Labour's dealings with Indian independence negotiations and anti-semitism in the thirties, and the effects of this on the conceptions of black citizenship, multi-racialism and black representation in labour politics.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Exploring Race and Labourism; Chapter 2 Socialism in the 1930s and for the 1990s; Chapter 3 The Labour Part y’s Commonwealth; Chapter 4 Anti-Semitism in East London; Chapter 5 Race and Race Relations in Postwar Britain; Chapter 6 Labour and Immigration from the 1950s to the 1990s; Chapter 7 Anti-Racism in the 1930s; Chapter 8 Anti-Racism in the 1970s; Chapter 9 Black Representation;

O autorze

Caroline Knowles is a Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic of East London and Visiting Professor at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. She has been researching, writing and teaching about race since the late 1970s in Britain, West Africa and Canada.