White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism

ISBN-13: 9780521817684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 182 str.

Roger Hewitt

Opis

The 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old black student, led to the widest review of institutional racism seen in the UK and revealed that nearby white working-class communities displayed deep hostility to multiculturalist practices. This book examines this phenomena within the context of changes in social class, evolving national political agendas and responses to race inequalities in the UK, the United States and elsewhere from the 1960s to the present.

Recenzje

'… this is surely worth a read.' Thames View

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Politics and 'backlash' on the large stage; 3. Greenwich and its racial murders; 4. Narrative, counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse; 5. Residence and resistance; the case of the Eltham Tenants Forum; 6. 'Race' and 'Culture' in education: from neighbourhood schools to the multicultural highway; 7. Backlash, multicultural politics and the global turbine.