White Backlash and the Politics of MulticulturalismThe murder of Stephen Lawrence led to the widest review of institutional racism seen in the UK. Sections of the white working-class communities in south London near to the scene of the murder, however, displayed deep hostility to the equalities and multiculturalist practice of the local state and other agencies. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this book relates these phenomena to the 'backlash' to multiculturalism evident during the 1990s in the USA, Australia, Canada, the UK and other European countries. It examines these within the unfolding social and political responses to race equalities in the UK and the USA from the 1960s to the present in the context of changes in social class and national political agendas. This book is unique in linking a detailed study of a community at a time of its critical importance to national debates over racism and multiculturalism, to historically wider international economic and social trends. |
Contents
Politics and backlash on the large stage | 18 |
Greenwich and its racial murders | 35 |
Narrative counternarrative and the boundaries | 56 |
the case of the Eltham | 79 |
from neighbourhood | 103 |
Backlash multicultural politics and the global turbine | 132 |
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References to this book
Multicultural Odysseys:Navigating the New International Politics of ... Will Kymlicka No preview available - 2007 |
Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation Anne-Marie Fortier No preview available - 2008 |