Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Hewitt, Roger

Title White backlash and the politics of multiculturalism / Roger Hewitt
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 171 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Politics and 'backlash' on the large stage; 3 Greenwich and its racial murders; 4 Narrative, counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse; 5 Residence and resistance: the case of the Eltham Tenants Forum; 6 'Race' and 'culture' in education: from neighbourhood schools to the multicultural highway; 7 Backlash, multicultural politics and the global turbine; Select bibliography; Index
Summary Stephen Lawrence's murder led to the widest review of institutional racism seen in the UK. Sections of the white working-class communities near the scene of the murder, however, were deeply hostile to multiculturalist initiatives. Drawing on extensive research, the book relates these phenomena to the 'backlash' to multiculturalism internationally evident
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Multiculturalism -- Great Britain
Multiculturalism.
Race relations.
multiculturalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Multiculturalism
Race relations
SUBJECT Greenwich (London, England) -- Race relations
Subject England -- London -- Greenwich
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511125895
9780511125898
0511123752
9780511123757
9780521817684
0521817684
0521520894
9780521520898
0511125038
9780511125034
9780511299681
0511299680
9780511489198
0511489196
1280415266
9781280415265