1st Edition
Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)
By Olivier Esteves
Copyright 2023
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968.
Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to vent their... Read more
0. Introduction 1. Race 2. State 3. War 4. Empire 5. America 6. Class 7. Gender 8. Elites 9. Parties 10. Against 11. Conclusion
Biography
Olivier Esteves is a professor of British Studies at University of Lille. He works on ethnicity, race and Islamophobia in the UK, United States and France. Among other monographs, he has authored The ‘Desegregation’ of English Schools : Bussing, Race and Urban Space (1960s-1980s) in 2018.
