The 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 ot...

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Main Author:	Hewitt, Roger (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
Subjects:	Multiculturalism / Great Britain Multiculturalism Race relations Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Arbeiterklasse Weiße Großbritannien Greenwich (London, England) / Race relations London > Südwest London > Süd
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	The 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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 171 pages)
ISBN:	9780511489198
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511489198