In the Shadow of Enoch Powell - Race, Locality and Resistance

This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.

List of contents

Foreword by Patrick Vernon
Introduction
1 'The Commonwealth is much too common for me': another 1968
2 The world in Wolverhampton
3 Reverberations from 'Rivers of Blood'
4 Resistance in the schools and on the buses
5 'A monstrous reputation': remembering Enoch Powell
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Shirin Hirsch is based at the People's History Museum and is a Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. When writing the book she was a researcher at the University of Wolverhampton.

Summary

This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Shirin Hirsch
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526127372
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2737-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Racism Resistance and Social C; Racism, Resistance and Social Change; Racism, Resistance and Social Change
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, Population and migration geography, resistance; class; immigration; British history