Race, Government and Politics in Britain
Author: Zig Layton-Henry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1349183954
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Race and Empire in British Politics
Author: Paul B. Rich
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1990-08-16
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521389587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses British thought on race and racial differences in the latter phases of empire from the 1890s to the early 1960s. It focuses on the role of racial ideas in British society and politics and looks at the decline in Victorian ideas of white Anglo-Saxon racial solidarity. The impact of anthropology is shown to have had a major role in shifting the focus on race in British ruling class circles from a classical and humanistic imperialism towards a more objective study of ethnic and cultural groups by the 1930s and 1940s. As the empire turned into a commonwealth, liberal ideas on race relations helped shape the post-war rise of 'race relations' sociology. Drawing on extensive government documents, private papers, newspapers, magazines and interviews this book breaks new ground in the analysis of racial discourse in twentieth-century British politics and the changing conception of race amongst anthropologists, sociologists and the professional intelligentsia.
Race and Racism in Contemporary Britain
Author: John Solomos
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-09-08
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1349201871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical study of the issues which are fundamental to the understanding of race and racism in modern Britain, this book examines the history of recent issues, the development of central and local government policies, the role of racist organizations, urban unrest and social change.
Race and Politics
Author: Muhammad Anwar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1135026173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines immigration and settlement patterns in Britain and at the civic position of ethnic minorities by outlining the development of race relations in the political context. It analyses the numbers, turnout patterns, voting behaviour and attitudes of the ethnic minorities to the political process and of the political parties to these minorities. In conclusion the author argues that the positive involvement of ethnic minorities in the political process, and in all aspects of British public life, is the genuine, long-term solution both to racial disadvantage and discrimination at every level.
Race and Politics in Britain
Author: Shamit Saggar
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work covers the issues of race and politics in contemporary British society, providing an analysis of the historical background to race and politics, a profile of Britain's ethnic minorities, coverage of the problems of a multi-racial society, an examination of race and party politics and urban political change, and a treatment of minority politics and race and policy-making.
Race Politics in Britain and France
Author: Erik Bleich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-05-26
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521009539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain and France have developed substantially different policies to manage racial tensions since the 1960s, in spite of having similar numbers of post-war ethnic minority immigrants. This book provides the first detailed historical exploration of race policy development in these two countries. In this path-breaking work, Bleich argues against common wisdom that attributes policy outcomes to the role of powerful interest groups or to the constraints of existing institutions, instead emphasizing the importance of frames as widely-held ideas that propelled policymaking in different directions. British policymakers' framing of race and racism principally in North American terms of color discrimination encouraged them to import many policies from across the Atlantic. For decades after WWII, by contrast, French policy leaders framed racism in terms influenced largely by their Vichy past, which encouraged policies designed primarily to counter hate speech while avoiding the recognition of race found across the English Channel.
EBOOK: Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain
Author: Sally Tomlinson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2008-03-16
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0335235565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow successful has Britain been in accommodating racial, religious and cultural diversity in the education system? Have there been contradictory policies that have encouraged migrant labour, while urging immigration control? Has the introduction of market principles to education created further problems for ethnic minorities? This book provides crucial information on key educational issues, events and conflicts in Britain from the 1960s to the present day, as the education system has attempted to incorporate racial and ethnic minorities and educate young people to live in an ethnically diverse society. It uses examples such as political and media reactions to Afro hairstyles in the 1970s through to hijabs and niquabs today, to illustrate how misplaced are the simplistic arguments that blame multiculturalism or minorities for segregation or lack of community cohesion. Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain describes how over the decades schools, teachers, parents, local communities and local authorities have worked towards the incorporation of minority children into the education system. It asserts that negative and contradictory policies by governments and a continued climate of hostility to those variously labelled as immigrant, ethnic minority, or non-white has made this extremely difficult. The book sets educational issues and events within a wider social and political context, taking account of national and global influences, and changing political beliefs and actions over the years. Sally Tomlinson argues that debates needs to focus less on dress and more on the educational, housing and employment problems, symptomatic of the continued poverty in many minority areas that works against social cohesion. Race and Education: Policy and Politics in Britain is an invaluable resource for all those concerned with education and social policy, especially students and professionals working in education, sociology and social policy.
The Politics of Race in Britain
Author: Zig Layton-Henry
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780043230275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Communism and the Politics of Race
Author: Evan Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9004352368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society. The book examines the balancing act that the Communist Party negotiated in its anti-racist work, between making appeals to the labour movement to get involved in the fight against racism and working with Britain's ethnic minority communities, who often felt let down by the trade unions and the Labour Party. Transitioning from a class-based outlook to an embrace of the new social movements of the 1960s–70s, the CPGB played an important role in the anti-racist struggle, but by the 1980s, it was eclipsed by more radical and diverse activist organisations.
Whitewashing Britain
Author: Kathleen Paul
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1501729330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned immigrants and thereby altering an expansive nationality policy that had previously allowed all British subjects free entry into the United Kingdom. Paul's extensive archival research shows, however, that the racism of ministers and senior functionaries led rather than followed public opinion. In the late 1940s, the Labour government faced a birthrate perceived to be in decline, massive economic dislocations caused by the war, a huge national debt, severe labor shortages, and the prospective loss of international preeminence. Simultaneously, it subsidized the emigration of Britons to Australia, Canada, and other parts of the Empire, recruited Irish citizens and European refugees to work in Britain, and used regulatory changes to dissuade British subjects of color from coming to the United Kingdom. Paul contends post-war concepts of citizenship were based on a contradiction between the formal definition of who had the right to enter Britain and the informal notion of who was, or could become, really British. Whitewashing Britain extends this analysis to contemporary issues, such as the fierce engagement in the Falklands War and the curtailment of citizenship options for residents of Hong Kong. Paul finds the politics of citizenship in contemporary Britain still haunted by a mixture of imperial, economic, and demographic imperatives.
