White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism

Informationen zum Autor Roger Hewitt is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published widely in the fields of racism, language and cultural processes and is the author of White Talk, Black Talk: Inter-racial Friendship and Communication amongst Adolescents (Cambridge, 1986). Klappentext Places the 'backlash' to racial equalities and multiculturalism in an historical context that extends from the 1960s to the present. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Hewitt, Roger L. Hewitt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521520898
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52089-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Canada, Australia, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General