1st Edition

'Race' in Britain Continuity and Change

Edited By Charles Husband Copyright 1982
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

'Race' in Britain (1982) provides a consideration of the place in 1970s British culture and society of the concept of ‘race’. Through a historical examination of the origins of the concept, the cultural habit of placing people into ‘races’ is placed in perspective as a social rather than a ‘natural’ phenomenon. The significance of this method of defining people and explaining the nature of the... Read more

Introduction. ‘Race’, the Continuity of a Concept Charles Husband  Part 1. ‘Race’ in Britain: the Historical Context  1. European Attitudes to the Outside World V.G. Kiernan  2. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontations with Africans Winthrop D. Jordan  3. Black Caricature: the Roots of Racialism James Walvin  Part 2. Placing the Contemporary Situation in Context  4. Immigration Policies in the United Kingdom Tom Rees  5. The Role of Government in Britain’s Racial Crisis Michael and Ann Dummett  6. Perhaps a Seventh Person? Sheila Allen  7. The Politics of Race in Britain, 1962–79: A Review of the Major Trends and of Recent Debates Gideon Ben-Tovim and John Gabriel  Part 3. Personal Experiences of Multi-Ethnic Britain  8. A West Indian/British Male  9. A Professional Black West Indian/British Male  10. A Young Gujerati/British Male  11. A Young Pakistani/British Female  12. Extracts from File on 4  Part 4. Social Identity and Social Structure  13. The Role of the Culture of Dominance in Structuring the Experience of Ethnic Minorities Verity Saifullah Khan  14. The Social Psychology of Minorities Henri Taifel  15. Reporting the National Front: British Values Observed Barry Troyna  16. Racism and Nationalism in Britain Robert Miles  Part 5. A Perspective on the Future  17. A Political Analysis of Race in the 1980s Gideon Ben-Tovim, John Gabriel, Ian Law and Kathleen Stredder

Biography

Charles Husband